The vacuum pressure can be measured with the help of a piezometer tube.

More Questions from Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

• According to Bazin, the coefficient of discharge varies with the height of water over the sill of a weir.
• The kinematic viscosity of an oil (in stokes) whose specific gravity is 0.95 and viscosity 0.011 poise, is
• Water is a __________ fluid.
• Falling drops of water become spheres due to the property of
• If the value of coefficient of discharge increases, the discharge through the orifice decreases.
• The torque required to overcome viscous resistance of a footstep bearing is (where μ = Viscosity of the oil, N = Speed of the shaft, R = Radius of the shaft, and t = Thickness of the oil film)
• A closed tank is completely filled with an oil. If it is made to move with a horizontal acceleration, then the pressure at the back end will be more than that at the front end.
• The pressure of the liquid flowing through the divergent portion of a venturimeter
• When the Mach number is between __________ the flow is called super-sonic flow.
• A manometer is used to measure

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