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A boat iron scrap is floating in a lake. If the iron is thrown into the tank, what will happen to water level in the lake ? 

Important Questions on Hydrostatics

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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 15
A piece of ice is floating in water, contained in a vessel. Inside ice there is a bubble of air. Will the level of water in the vessel change when ice melts ?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 1
A rectangular tank 2 m deep, 5 m broad and 10 m long is filled with water, calculate the thrust on each side and on the base. (Density of water = 1000kg/m3, g=9.8m/s2) 
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 2
A cube floating on mercury has 1/4 of its volume submerged. If enough water is added to cover the cube, what fraction of its volume will remain immersed in mercury?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 3
A book of wood weighs 4 kg and has a relative density 0.6. It is to be loaded with lead so that it will float completely immersed. What weight of lead is needed? (a) if the lead is on top of the block (b) if the lead is attached below the block? (Density of lead =11.34×103kg/m3)
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 4

A spherical iron shell floats almost completely submerged in water. If outer diameter is 0.5 m and the relative density of iron is 8, find the inner diameter.

(Answer correct to four decimal places)

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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 5
A cylinder of iron floats vertically and fully immersed in a vessel containing water and mercury. Find the ratio of the length of cylinder immersed in water to that in mercury. (Relative density of mercury =13.6 and that of iron=7.78)
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 6
A stem of a common hydrometer is cylindrical and the highest graduation corresponds to relative density 1.0 and the lowest  1.3. What relative density corresponds to a point exactly midway between the division?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 11>Chapter 13 - Hydrostatics>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 7

The stem of hydrometer is divided into 100 equal parts; it reads 0 in water and 100 in a liquid of relative density 0.8. Find the relative density of liquid in which it reads 50.