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  • A manometer can be used to measure vacuum pressures.


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  • A. Agree
  • B. disagree

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  • Agree 

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    • 1. A glass tube of smaller diameter is used while performing an experiment for the capillary rise of water because

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    • A. it is easier to see through the glass tube
    • B. glass tube is cheaper than a metallic tube
    • C. it is not possible to conduct this experiment with any other tube
    • D. all of the above
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    • 2. A water tank contains 1.3 m deep water. The pressure exerted by the water per metre length of the tank is

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    • A. 2.89 kN
    • B. 8.29 kN
    • C. 9.28 kN
    • D. 28.9 kN
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    • 3. The efficiency of power transmission through pipe is (where H = Total supply head, and hf = Head lost due to friction in the pipe)

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    • 4. A vertically immersed surface is shown in the below figure. The distance of its centre of pressure from the water surface is

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    • 5. The ratio of the inertia force to the gravity force is called Froude number.

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    • A. Agree
    • B. Disagree
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    • 6. The error in discharge (dQ/Q) to the error in measurement of head (dH/H) over a rectangular notch is given by

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    • 7. A flow in which __________ force is dominating over the viscosity is called turbulent flow.

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    • A. elastic
    • B. surface tension
    • C. viscous
    • D. inertia
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    • 8. When the pressure intensity at a point is less than the local atmospheric pressure, then the difference of these two pressures is called vacuum pressure.

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    • A. Agree
    • B. Disagree
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    • 9. Which of the following statement is wrong?

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    • A. A flow whose streamline is represented by a curve, is called two dimensional flow.
    • B. The total energy of a liquid particle is the sum of potential energy, kinetic energy and pressure energy.
    • C. The length of divergent portion in a venturimeter is equal to the convergent portion.
    • D. A pitot tube is used to measure the velocity of flow at the required point in a pipe.
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    • 10. The discharge through an external mouthpiece is given by (where a = Cross-sectional area of the mouthpiece, and H = Height of liquid above the mouthpiece)

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    • A. 0.855 a2gH
    • B. 1.855 aH2g
    • C. 1.585 a2gH
    • D. 5.85 aH2g
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