Assignment No. 1
1
A reservoir of glycerin has a mass of 1200 kg and a volume of 0.952 m³. Find the glycerin's weight (W), mass
density, specific weight,and specific gravity.
2
A body requires a force of 100 N to accelerate it at a rate of 0.20 m/s ². Determine the mass of the body in kilograms
and in slugs.
3
A reservoir of carbon tetrachloride has a mass of 500 kg and a volume of 0.315 m ³. Find the carbon tetrachloride's
weight, mass density, specific weight, and specific gravity.
4
The specific gravity of ethyl alcohol is 0.79. Calculate its specific weight (in both pounds per cubic foot and
kilonewtons per cubic meter) and mass density (in both slugs per cubic foot and kilograms per cubic meter)
5
A quart of water weighs about 2.08 lb. Compute its mass in slugs and kilograms.
6
One cubic foot of glycerin has a mass of 2.44 slugs. Find its specific weight in both pounds per cubic foot and
kilonewtons per cubic meter.
7
A quart of SAE 30 oil at 68° F weighs about 1.85 lb. Calculate the oil's specific weight, mass density, and specific
gravity.
8
The volume of a rock is found to be 0.00015 m³. If the rock's specific gravity is 2.60, what is its weight?
9
A certain gasoline weighs 46.5 lb/ ft³. What are its mass density, specific volume, and specific gravity?
10
If the specific weight of a substance is 8.2 kn/ m³, what is its mass density?
11
An object at a certain location has a mass of 2.0 kg and weighs 19.0 N on a spring balance. What is the acceleration
due to gravity at this location?
12
If an object has a mass of 2.0 slugs at sea level, what would its mass be at location where the acceleration due to
gravity is 30.00 ft/s²
13
What would be the weight of a 3-kg mass on a planet where the acceleration due to gravity is 10.00 m/s²?
14
If 200 ft³ of oils weight 10, 520 lb, calculate its specific weight, density, and specific gravity.
15
Under standard conditions a certain gas weighs 0.14 lb/ft³. Calculate its density, specific volume, and specific
gravity relative to air weighing 0.075 lb/ft³.
16
If the specific volume of a gas is 360 ft³/ slug, what is its specific weight?
17
Calculate the specific weight, density and specific gravity of one liter of a liquid which weighs 7 N.
18
Calculate the density, specific weight, and weight of one liter of petrol of specific gravity = 0.7
19
If the specific weight of a liquid is 8.1 kn/m³, what is its density?
20
the weight of the bodyis 100 lb. Determine its weight in newtons, its mass in kilograms, and the rate of acceleration
in both feet per second (ft/s²) and meters per second (m/s²) if a netforce of 50 lb is applied to the body.