hydraulic engineering

1. C4009 HYDRAULIC II TEST 1
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Please answer all the question below :
Question 1
Figure 1 : Spillway Gate
Consider a spillway gate that consists a circular arc AB as shown in the figure. The arc
has a radius of 3 meters and the water level is at 6 meters. The spillway gate is 8 meters
wide.
Calculate the magnitude and the line of action of the resultant force exerted on the
circular surface AB by the fluid?
( 25 marks)
Question 2
A wooden block of width 1.25m, depth 0.75m and length 3.0m is floating in water.
Specific weight of the wood is 6.4kN/m3
. Find
( i ) Volume of water displaced, and
( ii ) metacentric (GM)
( 25 marks)
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