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Define coefficient of viscosity.

Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids

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The velocity of water in a river is 18 km h-1 near the surface. If the river is 5m deep, find the shearing stress between the horizontal layers of water. The coefficient of viscosity of water=10-2 poise.
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Oil is used for frying food materials rather than water, since oil
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The relative viscosity of blood remains constant between
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A metal block of base area 0.20 m2 is placed on a table, as shown in figure. A liquid film of thickness 0.25 mm is inserted between the block and the table. The block is pushed by a horizontal force of 0.1 N and moves with a constant speed. If the viscosity of the liquid is 5.0×103 Pl, the speed of block is ______ ×10-3 m s-1.

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Two capillary tubes of same length each of 50 cm but of different radii 4 mm and 2 mm are connected in series. When water flows, the pressure difference between the ends of the arrangement is P. Then the pressure difference between the ends of the first tube is
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A flat plate of area 10 cm2 is separated form a large plate by a layer of Glycerine 1 mm thick. If the coefficient of viscosity of Glycerine is 20 poise, the force required to keep the plate moving with a velocity of 1 cm s-1 is       
 

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The velocity of upper layer of water in a river is 36 km h-1. Shearing stress between horizontal layers of water is 10-3 N m-2. Depth of the river is _____ m. (Co-efficient of viscosity of water is 10-2 Pa s)
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The velocity of water in a river is 18 km h-1 near the surface. If the river is 5 m deep, find the shearing stress between the horizontal layers of water. The coefficient of viscosity of water=10-2 poise.
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A steel ball is dropped in a viscous liquid. The distance of the steel ball from the top of the liquid is shown below. The terminal velocity of the ball is closest to

 

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The velocity of a small ball of mass M and density ρ, when dropped in a container filled with glycerine becomes constant after some time. If the density of glycerine is ρ2, then the viscous force acting on the ball will be:
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A solid sphere of volume V experiences a viscous force F when descending with a speed v in a liquid. If another solid sphere of volume 27 V descends with the same speed v in the same liquid, it experiences a viscous force
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Consider a thin square plate floating on a viscous liquid in a large tank. The height h of the liquid in the tank is much less than the width of the tank. The floating plate is pulled horizontally with a constant velocity u0. Which of the following statements is (are) true?
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A metal block of Film area 0.10 m2 is connected to a 0.01 kg mass is string that passes over a massless and frictionless pulley as shown figure. A liquid with a film thickness of 0.3 mm is placed between the block and the table. When released the block moves to the right with a constant speed of 0.085 m s-1. The coefficient of viscosity of the liquid is (Take g=10 m s-2)
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The velocity of water in river is 18 km h-1 near the surface. If the river is 5 m deep, then the shearing stress between the surface layer and the bottom layer is (coefficient of viscosity of water, η=10-3 Pa s)
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If the equal and opposite deforming force are applied parallel to the cross-sectional area of the cylinder as shown in the figure, there is a relative displacement between the opposite faces of the cylinder.
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The ratio of x to L is known as

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Two capillary of length L and 2L and of radii R and 2R are connected in series. The net rate of flow of fluid through them will be (given rate of the flow through single capillary, X= πpR48ɳL)
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Glycerine flows steadily through a horizontal tube of length 1.5 m and radius 1.0 cm. If the amount of glycerine collected per second at one end is 4.0 × 10-3  kg s-1 , what is the pressure difference between the two ends of the tube? (Density of glycerine = 1.3 × 103 kg m-3 and viscosity of glycerine = 0.83 Pa s). [You may also like to check if the assumption of laminar flow in the tube is correct]. 

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In deriving Bernoulli’s equation, we equated the work done on the fluid in the tube to its change in the potential and kinetic energy. Do the dissipative forces become more important as the fluid velocity increases? Discuss qualitatively.