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A block of wood is floating in water in a closed vessel as shown in the figure. The vessel is connected to an air pump. When more air is pushed into the vessel, the block of wood floats with (neglect compressibility of water)
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Important Questions on Fluid Mechanics

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A wooden rod of a uniform cross section and od length 120 cm is hinged at the bottom of the tank which is filled with water to a height of 40 cm. in the equilibrium position, the rod makes an angle of 60° with the vertical. The centre of buoyancy is located on the rod at a distance (from the hinge) of
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An iceberg is floating partially immersed in seawater. The density of seawater is 1.03 g cm3 and that of ice is 0.92 g cm3 . The approximate percentage of the total volume of iceberg above the level of seawater is -
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Equal masses of three liquid are kept in three identical cylindrical vessels A, B and C. Their densities are ρA, ρB and ρC with ρA<ρB<ρC. The force on the base will be
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A lawn sprinkler has 20 holes, each of cross-sectional area 2.0×10-2 cm2 and is connected to a hosepipe of cross-sectional area 2.4 cm2. If the speed of water in the hose-pipe is 1.5 m s-1, the speed of water as it emerges from the holes is,
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A block of silver of mass 4 kg hanging from a string is immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.72. If relative density of silver is 10, then tension in the string will be: [ take g=10 m s-2]
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A vessel contains oil (density=0.8 g cm-3) over mercury (density=13.6 g cm-3). A uniform sphere floats with half its volume immersed in mercury and the other half in oil. The density of the material of the sphere (in g cm-3) is
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A sealed tank containing a liquid of density ρ moves with a horizontal acceleration a, as shown in the figure. The difference in pressure between the points A and B is
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An empty balloon weighs W1. If air equal in weight to W is pumped into the balloon. The weight of the balloon becomes W2. suppose that the density of air inside and outside the balloon is the same. Then