The specific weight of sea water is __________ that of pure water.

More Questions from Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

• According to Pascal's law, the intensity of pressure at any point in a fluid at rest is the same in all directions.
• The intensity of pressure on an immersed surface __________ with the increase in depth.
• In an internal mouthpiece, the absolute pressure head at vena contracta is __________ the atmospheric pressure head by an amount equal to height of the liquid above the vena contracta.
• The flow in a pipe is neither laminar nor turbulent when Reynold number is
• With an increase in size of tube, the rise or depression of liquid in the tube due to surface tension will
• The total energy line lies over the centre line of the pipe by an amount equal to
• The total pressure on a horizontally immersed surface is (where w = Specific weight of the liquid, A = Area of the immersed surface, and x = Depth of the centre of gravity of the immersed surface from the liquid surface)
• The flow in a pipe is laminar, when Reynold number is less than 2000.
• The most economical section of a trapezoidal channel is one which has hydraulic mean depth equal to
• When a cylindrical vessel containing liquid is revolved, the surface of the liquid takes the shape of

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