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CE 3305 Engineering Fluid Mechanics
Spring 2024 Exercise Set 5

LAST NAME, FIRST NAME

R00000000

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Purpose :

Application of bouyancy and stability.

Assessment Criteria :

Completion, plausible solutions, use of Jupyter Notebook as a calculator/documentation method

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Problem 1.

A block of material of unknown volume is submerged in water and found to weigh 300 N (in water). The same block weighs 700 N in air.

Determine:

• the volume of the material.
• the specific weight of the material.

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# list known quantities

# list unknown quantities

# governing principles

# solution (step-by-step)

# discussion

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Problem 2.

Figure 1 is a schematic of a balance to weigh an object submerged in a liquid. The cube ($L= 60~mm$) is suspended in carbon tetrachloride and is exactly balanced by an object of mass $m_1 = 700~g$

Figure 1: Balance Beam Schematic

Find the mass $m_2$ of the cube

# sketch here

# list known quantities

# list unknown quantities

# governing principles

# solution (step-by-step)

# discussion

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