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A hydraulic automobile lift is designed to lift cars with a maximum mass of 3000 kg. The area of cross-section of the piston carrying the load is 425 cm2. What maximum pressure would the smaller piston have to bear?

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Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids

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The pressure at the bottom of a liquid tank is not proportional to the
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A tall tank filled with water has an irregular shape as shown. The wall, CD makes an angle of, 45o with the horizontal; the wall, AB is normal to the base, BC . The lengths, AB and, CD are much smaller than the height, h of water (figure not to scale).
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Let P1, P2 and P3 be the pressures exerted by the water on the wall AB, base BC, and the wall CD, respectively. The density of water is, ρ and, g is the acceleration due to gravity. Then, approximately
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Water stands upto height 'h' behind the dam as shown in the figure. The front view of the dam gate is also shown in the adjoining figure. Density of water is 'ρ' and acceleration due to gravity is 'g'. If atmospheric pressure force is also considered, the point of application of total force acting on the dam due to water above 'o' is_____

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The pressure at the bottom of a tank of liquid is not proportional to
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One ton stone is put on a larger piston of diameter 40 cm of a hydraulic lift and a pressure P has to be applied on the smaller piston of diameter 2 cm, to lift the stone. The pressure P, is approximately
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The liquid shown in the figure in the two arms is mercury (specific gravity 13.6) and water. If the difference of heights of the mercury column is 2 cm, the height h of the water column is

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There is a circular tube in a vertical plane. Two liquids which do not mix and of densities d1 and d2 are filled in the tube. Each liquid subtends 90o angle at centre. Radius joining their interface makes an angle α with vertical. Ratio d1d2  is:
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A cylindrical block of wood (density = 650 kg m-3), of base area 30 cm2 and height 54 cm, floats in a liquid of density 900 kg m-3. The block is depressed slightly and then released. The time period of the resulting oscillations of the block would be equal to that of a simple pendulum of length (nearly) :

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A hydraulic press can lift 100 kg when a mass m is placed on the smaller piston.How much mass (in kg)  can it lift when the diameter of the larger piston is increased by 4 times and that of the smaller piston is decreased by 4 times keeping the same mass m on the smaller piston.
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Two narrow bores of diameter 5.0 mm and 8.0 mm are joined together to form a U-shaped tube open at both ends. If this U-tube contains water, what is the difference in the level of two limbs of the tube.
[Take surface tension of water T=7.3×10-2 N m-1, angle of contact =0, g=10 m s-2 and density of water=1.0×103 kg m-3
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A long container has a square base of side L . The height to which water should be filled so that the force on one of its side surface is the same as that at its bottom is (ignore atmospheric pressure)
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Two liquids of densities ρ1 and ρ2ρ2=2ρ1 are filled up behind a square wall of side 10 m as shown in figure. Each liquid has a height of 5 m. The ratio of the forces due to these liquids exerted on upper part MN to that at the lower part NO is (Assume that the liquids are not mixing):

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Two non-mixing liquids of densities ρ and nρn>1 are put in a container. The height of each liquid is h. A solid cylinder of length L and density d is put in this container. The cylinder floats with its axis vertical and length pLp<1 in the denser liquid. The density d is equal to:
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The pressure acting on a submarine is 3×105 Pa at a certain depth. If the depth is doubled, the percentage increase in the pressure acting on the submarine would be: (Assume that atmospheric pressure is 1×105 Pa density of water is 103 kg m-3, g=10 ms-2)
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A uniform cylinder of length L and mass M having cross-sectional area A is suspended, with its length vertical, from a fixed point by a massless spring, such that it is half submerged in a liquid of density σ at equilibrium position. The extension x 0 of the spring when it is in equilibrium is :
 
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The approximate depth of an ocean is 2700 m . The compressibility of water is 45.4×10-11 Pa-1 and density of water is 103  kg/m 3. What fractional compression of water will be obtained at the bottom of the ocean ?
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A body of density ρ and volume V is lifted through height h in a liquid of density σ<ρ. The increase in potential energy of the body is
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The working of hydraulic lift is based on the principle of
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A cylindrical vessel containing a liquid is rotated about its axis so that the liquid rises at its sides as shown in the figure. The radius of vessel is 5 cm and the angular speed of rotation is ω rad s-1. The difference in the height, h in cm of liquid at the Centre of vessel and at the sides of the vessel will be :

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A long cylindrical vessel is half filled with a liquid. When the vessel is rotated about its own vertical axis, the liquid rises up near the wall. If the radius of vessel is 5 cm and its rotational speed is 2 rotations per second, then the difference in the heights between the center and the sides, in cm, will be: