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  • Question
  • For the estimate of high floods in fan-shaped catchment, the formula used is


  • Options
  • A. Dicken's formula
  • B. Ryve's formula
  • C. Inglis formula
  • D. none of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • Inglis formula 


  • Water Resources Engineering problems


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    • 1. Consumptive use of a crop during growth, is the amount of

    • Options
    • A. interception
    • B. transpiration
    • C. evaporation
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Shrouding is provided in

    • Options
    • A. cavity type tube wells
    • B. slotted type tube wells
    • C. strainer type tube wells
    • D. perforated type tube wells.
    • Discuss
    • 3. In a beam, the neutral plane

    • Options
    • A. may be its centre
    • B. passes through the C.G. of the area of cross-section
    • C. does not change during deformation
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The deflection of any rectangular beam simply supported, is

    • Options
    • A. directly proportional to its weight
    • B. inversely proportional to its width
    • C. inversely proportional to the cube of its depth
    • D. directly proportional to the cube of its length
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. If the width of a simply supported beam carrying an isolated load at its centre is doubled, the deflection of the beam at the centre is changed by

    • Options
    • A. 1/2
    • B. 1/8
    • C. 2
    • D. 8
    • E. 4
    • Discuss
    • 6. The standard height of a standard rain gauge, is

    • Options
    • A. 10 cm
    • B. 20 cm
    • C. 30 cm
    • D. 50 cm.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

    • Options
    • A. Absolute humidity at a given temperature is equal to weight of moisture present in a unit volume
    • B. Relative humidity is the ratio of actual vapour pressure and saturation vapour pressure at the same temperature
    • C. Relative humidity is the ratio of the weight of the vapours present per unit volume to the weight of vapours which could be contained at the same temperature when fully saturated
    • D. Humidity can be measured by psychrometer
    • E. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

    • Options
    • A. Rivers, lakes, oceans and springs get water from the rains
    • B. Rain water is obtained by evaporation from rivers, lakes and oceans
    • C. Water remains in atmosphere as vapours
    • D. Hydrologic cycle is a continuous process of evaporation and precipitation of water in atmosphere
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 9. Unit Hydrograph theory was enunciated by

    • Options
    • A. Merril Bernard
    • B. W.W. Horner
    • C. Le-Roy K. Shermen
    • D. Robert E. Horten.
    • Discuss
    • 10. In the derivation of Thiem's formula , the following assumption is not applicable

    • Options
    • A. The aquifer is homogeneous and isotropic
    • B. Flow lines are radial and horizontal
    • C. The slope of the water surface is too small
    • D. The well has been sunk up to the surface of the unconfined aquifer
    • E. None of these.
    • Discuss


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