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If a 100 horsepower pump is used to pump water (rho = 1.94 slugs/ft3) from a lake to a raised reservoir what is the maximum elevation of the reservoir above the lake if the pump operates at 30 cubic
A 2005 Chrysler Town and Country MInivan has a frontal area of 2.9m2 and a drag coefficient of 0.35. A 2000 Honda Insight has a frontal area of 1.9m2 and a drag coefficient of 0.25.
In a given experiment it is determined that the pressure change (deltaP) between two points in a pipe is dependent upon the density(p) of the fluid, the diameter(D) of the pipe, and the velocity(V)
Water at 70oC (row = 1.94 slugs/ft3) flows out of a nozzle (diam. = 1in) with a velocity of 10 ft/s at an individual holding a protective shield. If the water deflects off of the shield perpendicula
A haul fleet of trucks having a heaped capacity of 15 cy. is to be loaded by a hydraulic backhoe excavator (CT=.48 min.) with a 3 1/2 cy. heaped capacity. Assume the material is a wet loam that wei
A 1600-ft-long sag vertical curve (equal tangent) has a PVC at station 120+00 and elevation of 1500 ft. The initial grade is -3.5% and the final grade is +6.5%. Determine the elevation and stationin
The motor has an efficiency of 80%. It operates at 240V AC. A 12" diameter drum is attached to the gearbox output shaft, and a wire rope is wrapped around the drum to act as a winch. The winch is us
The flowrate through an open channel with a slope of 2 % is calculated using Manning's equation at 100 cubic feet per second. If the slope of the channel is doubled to 4%
The prototype and model will both be in air, if the prototype has a velocity of 500 ft/s and a diameter of 30 ft, what should the velocity for the model be if the model diameter is 2 ft
A syringe is pointed vertically up in the air and a force of 5 lbs is applied to the plunger with a diameter of 0.5 inches. Assuming no losses in the system how high will the stream of water rise abov
A simple four-leg intersection needs a 2-phase fixed-time signal. The critical flows in the N-S and E-w directions are 600 and 400 veh/hr, respectively, with a 0.95 peak-hour factor.
a 150 L helium tank contains pure helium at a pressue of 1825 psig. How many 3.5L helium balloons can be filled from the helium in the tank? (Assume an atmospheric pressue (14.7 psia) and a temp of
If water at 70 degrees C (row=1.94 slugs/ft^3, vapor pressue= 0.363psia) is used in a simple barometer what is the height of the column of water if the atmospheric pressure is 15 psia
An activated sludge aeration tank has a width of 14m, a length of 15m and an effective liquid depth of 4.5m. The secondary clarifier has a diameter of 25m. The plant operating parameters are as foll
Helium enters an adiabatic steady-state nozzle at 200kPa and 124 degrees Celsius and 10m/s. At the nozzle exit the temperature of the helium is 100 degrees Celsius and the pressure = 150 kPa.
All jets including 868 have a runway occupancy time of 60 seconds. The 868 can carry an average payload of 360 passengers while all other jets have an average payload of 200 passengers.
When in use, a fishing rod can be approximated to act as a cantilevered beam. Assume that the force (P) is applied to the end of the beam by a fish while the fisherman rigidly holds the other end of
An SAE steel wire (1mm diameter) is coated with another cover to form a composite material with diameter of 2 mm. a) determine the elastic modulus of the composite material;
if you were asked to determine the mechanical properties of ametal by concucting a test, what type of test whould you use, and what data can you abtain from that test
Calculate the size of an anaerobic digester required to treat the sludge from a primary clarifier designed to treat 38,000 m3/d of sewage. The quantity of dry volatile solids removed by the plant is
The power, P, required by an agitator in a tank is a function of the following variables, diameter of the agitator, D, Frequency of the impeller rotation, w (1/s), Viscosity of liquid, u (lbss/ft^2)
Assume that at one end of the column a clockwise moment of 100 k-ft is present, and that at the other end of the column a counter-clockwise moment of 25 k-ft is present. you may assume that k= 1.
A two-stage trickling filter plant treats 291.7 m3/h of municipal wastewater that has a BOD5 of 200 mg/L. The two filters have equal dimensions (depth = 1.68 m; diameter = 21.3 m), and each has a re
What is the major head loss in a coarse concrete pipe with a diamter of 1ft that is 100 ft long. Water flows at a rate of 20 ft^3/s (viscosity of water = 2.344x10^-5 lbfs/ft^2, density of water = 1.