Honors Fluid Dynamics Worksheet

(Includes Bernoulli)

1. Geysers in Yellowstone National Park shoot columns of water as high as 50 m into the air. If the
water at the mouth of the geyser is assumed to be initially at rest, then what subsurface pressure is
needed for the water to reach such a height?
2. Water flows upward through a pipe shown below at a rate of 15 L/s. If water enters the lower end of
the pipe with a velocity of 3 m/s, then what is the difference in pressure between the two ends? (the
cross sectional area of the upper part of the pipe is 20 cm2 and the difference in height between the two
ends is 1.5 m)

3. A boat strikes an underwater rock and opens a pencil-sized crack 7.0 mm wide and 150 mm long and
its hull is 65 cm below the waterline. The boats crew takes 5 minutes to locate the crack and plug it up.
How much water entered the boat in the meantime?
4. Water flows at 2.5 m/s through a garden hose which has an inside radius is 6 mm. a) What should
the nozzle radius be fro water to leave it at 10.0 m/s? b) What is the rate of flow of water through the
hose in L/min.
5. A bracelet appears to be gold and is suspended from a spring scale that read 50 g in air and 46 g
when the bracelet is immersed in a glass of pure water. a) Is the bracelet pure gold? b) What would
the scale read if the bracelet were placed in salt water?
6. An iceberg is a chunk of freshwater ice that has broken off from an ice cap, such as those around
Greenland and Antarctica, or a glacier at the edge of the sea. Find the proportion of the volume of an
iceberg that is submerged.
7. Unfortunately Mr. Bruening has died and his dying wish was to have his cremated remains sent to the
bottom of the ocean in an aluminum cube that measures 50 cm per side. If the cube of dead Bruening is
sent to the deepest part of the ocean, the Marianas Trench, which is 7 miles below the surface of the
ocean, then how much does the aluminum cubes volume decrease?
8. While weeping at Mr. Bruenings funeral, Mrs. Klein was sipping a Frosty Dairy(?) Dessert in a
straw. If the average person sucking on a straw can decrease the pressure inside the straw to 90% of
atmospheric pressure and the density of a Frosty is 15% greater than water, then what is the longest
straw that Mrs. Klein can use to drink her Frosty without getting tears in it? (Obviously the tears would
decrease the density of the Frosty over time and then we would have to use much more complicated
math to solve this problem).
9. A wooden board 10 cm thick floats in water with its upper surface parallel to and 3.0 cm above the
water surface. What is the density of the wood?
10. A barge 35 m long and 6.0 m wide has a mass of 2.0x105 kg. What depth of seawater is required to
float it?