D.A.
V GROUP OF SCHOOLS, CHENNAI
PALLIKARANAI
(2024-2025)
CLASS: XI SUB: PHYSICS PRACTICE QUESTIONS
PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. Explain the concept of capillary action with an example.
2. Differentiate between streamline flow and turbulent flow.
3. Write the expression for the pressure at a depth ℎ in a liquid of density d.
4. A hydraulic lift is used to lift a car of mass 1000 kg. The area of the cross-section of the
piston carrying the car is 1 m². What is the pressure exerted on the piston? (g=9.8m/s2)
5. Calculate the excess pressure inside a soap bubble of radius 5 cm. Surface tension of soap
solution is 0.03N/m.
6. A liquid has a surface tension of 0.075N/m. Calculate the excess pressure inside a spherical
droplet of this liquid with a radius of 0.5 mm.
7. A cylindrical tank is filled with water to a height of 10 m. What is the pressure at the
bottom of the tank? (Density of water = 1000 kg/m3 ,g=9.8 m/s2)
8. Explain why oil rises through the wick of an oil lamp?
9. State Bernoulli’s principle.
10. How does temperature affect the viscosity of liquids and gases?
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
[Link] the variation of fluid viscosity with temperature and pressure, also find the units
and dimensions of coefficients of viscosity.
12. State and deduce Stokes’ law also state the condition under which Stokes’ law is valid.
13. A hydraulic lift has two pistons of different diameters. The diameter of the smaller piston
is 5 cm, and the diameter of the larger piston is 30 cm. If a force of 200 N is applied to the
smaller piston, calculate the force exerted by the larger piston.
14. State Pascal's law and give an example of its application.
15. Explain why?
(i) Small drops of mercury are spherical and larger ones tend to flattened.
(ii) Sand is drier than clay.
16. On the basis of Bernoulli’s principle explains the lift on an aircraft.
17. Derive formula for capillary rise. Calculate the capillary rise of water in a glass tube of
radius 0.5 mm. (Surface tension of water = 0.072 N/m, contact angle = 0°, density of water
= 1000 kg/m³)
18. Define angle of contact and on what factors it depends.
19. Derive excess of pressure inside an air bubble.
20. Two soap bubbles have their radii in the ratio 2:3 compare excess of pressure inside these
bubbles also compare the work done in blowing these bubbles.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
21. Give principle and working of hydraulic brake with a suitable diagram.
22. State and prove Bernoulli’s principle for flow of non-viscus, incompressible liquid in
streamline flow.
23. (i) Explain why sometimes the light roofs of thatched houses are blown off during storm.
(ii) Derive stokes law dimensionally.
24. (i) Derive an expression for the rise in capillary tube of uniform diameter and sufficient
length.
(ii) A liquid drop of diameter D breaks up into 27 small drops, find the resulting change in
energy. Take surface tension on the liquid as ‘S’.
25. Describe how does a body attains terminal velocity when it is dropped from rest to a
viscous medium. Derive an expression for terminal velocity.
26. Show that there is always an excess pressure on the concave side of the meniscus of a
liquid. Obtain expression for the excess pressure
(i) inside a liquid drop (ii) inside liquid bubble (iii) inside an air bubble.
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[Link] surface tension of soap solution at 20 °C is 2.50 × 10 N m-1. Calculate the excess
pressure inside a soap bubble of radius 5 mm of this solution. If an air bubble of the same
dimension were formed at depth of 40.0 cm inside a container containing the soap
solution of relative density 1.20, what would be the pressure inside the bubble? (1 atm =
1.01 × 105 pa.)
