The specific gravity of water is taken as

More Questions from Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

• The total pressure on the bottom of a closed cylindrical vessel completely filled up with a liquid is the sum of the total centrifugal pressure and the weight of the liquid in the vessel.
• When the Mach number is more than 6, the flow is called
• When the Mach number is equal to unity, the flow is called sonic flow.
• Poise is the unit of viscosity in C.G.S. system of units.
• The reciprocal of Euler's number is called Newton number.
• When a body is immersed wholly or partially in a liquid, it is lifted up by a force equal to the weight of liquid displaced by the body. This statement is called
• The unit of surface tension is
• The total pressure on the top of a closed cylindrical vessel competely filled up with a liquid is
• The ratio of the inertia force to the __________ is called Euler's number.
• The body will float if the force of buoyancy is __________ the weight of the liquid displaced.

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