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A temporary diversion has been constructed on a highway of +4 percent gradient due to major repairs that are being undertaken on a bridge. The maximum speed allowed on the diversion is 10 mph.
Determine the excess pressure inside an 0.5-in-diameter soap bubble floating in air, given the surface tension of the soap solution is 0.0035 lb/ft.
If the rate of travel of the ram u is 0.5 fps, find the frictional resistance, F when 6 ft of the ram is engaged in the cylinder.
If the barometer reads 102 kPa abs, what is the partial pressure of the dry air, and what is its specific weight. What is the specific weight of the atmosphere (air plus the water vapor present).
A strong wind moves the air mass over a mountain range at 2,500 m. mean sea level and then the air descends to an elevation of 500 m on the leeward of the mountain.
What is the density in kg/m3 of: (a) dry air at 25 degrees C and a pressure of 1,000 millibars; (b) moist air with a relative humidity of 80% at the same temperature and pressure
A curved section of a two-lane highway measured in the field was found to be 22 feet wide and have an elevation difference of 1.37 feet between the outside and inside edges of the pavement
After drawing a free body diagram, how do you determine what the forces are in the Ax, Ay directions, etc. without being given any numbers
What is the shear rate in the water between a sliding and standing plate, if V = 10 ft/s is the moving plate velocity and 0.1 in. is the distance between the plates
Clouds can weigh thousands of pounds due to their liquid water content. Often this content is measured g/m^3. Assume that a cumulus cloud occupies a volume of one cubic km, and its liquid water cont
A person (mass of 80g) is lifted upward by a 2 cm diameter safety rope with constant velocity. What is the tensile stress in the rope
A 2500-lb car (CD = 0.35, Af = 25 ft^2, and ? = 0.002378 slugs/ft^3) has 14-inch-radius wheels, a drivetrain efficiency of 90%, an overall gear reduction ratio of 3.2 to 1, and drive axle slippage o
The owner wish to achieve an initial acceleration from rest of 15 ft/s^2 on a level paved surface. What is the maximum coefficient of road adhesion needed to achieve this acceleration
A rigid tank contains 40 lbm of air in 20 psia and 70 degrees F. More air is added to the tank untill the pressure and temperature rise to 35 psia and 90 degrees F, respectively.
Knowing that the tension is 120 lb in AB and 40 lb in AD, determine graphically the magnitude and direction of the resultant of the forces exerted by the stays at A
A concrete column with cross-sectional area is A= 120inches squared supports an axial compressive load P=9.0 kip, including the weight of the column. Determine the bearing stress in the soil. Concre
A four-wheel tractor whose operating weight is 47,877 lb is pulled up a road whose slope is +3.5% at a uniform speed. If the average tension in the towing cable is 4,860lb, what is the rolling resis
Lines of levels were run requiring (n) instrument setups. If the road reading for each backsight and foresight has a standard deviation of +-0.005 ft what is the standard deviation for n=40
Write a brief (No more than a few paragraphs plus the equations themselves on a) description of the three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations as applied to water.
Two parallel plates, one moving at 4m/s and the other fixed, are seperated by a 5mm thick layer of oil of specific gravity 0.80 and kinematic viscocity 1.25 X 10^-4 m2/s.
If the purlins are spaced 4 ft and the bents are spaced 25 ft apart, determine the distributed loading that acts along the purlin DF and the loadings that act on the bent at A,B,C,D, and E.
The length of a reading room in a library is 10 m and its breadth is 8 m. Compute the distributed live load, assuming the basic value of the load to be 2873 N/m2.
At a point in a material, a resultant stress of 151 MN/m^2 acts in a direction making angles of 52 deg, 79 deg, and 40.13 deg with the coordinate axes, x,y and z respectively.
the wastwater has a BOD5 of 1200 mg\liter that must be reduced to 200 mg\liter.if the mean cell residence time 5 days and suspended solids concentration of 5000 mg\liter and Y 0.7 kg\kg and kd 0.03
A steel rod of 1/8 inch diameter is bent into a loop 10 feet in diameter. Determine the maximum flexural stress in the rod.