Example 1-1 An object at sea level has a mass of 400 kg. a) Find the weight of this object on earth.

b) Find the weight of this object on the moon where the local gravitational acceleration is one-sixth that of earth. (a)

Wt = mg
m 1N Wt = (400 kg )(9.807 2 )( ) s kg m s2 = 3922.8 N
(b)

Wt = mg 9.807 m 1 N = (400 kg )( )( ) 2 6 s kg m s2 = 653.8 N

Example 1-2E An object has a mass of 180 lbm. Find the weight of this object at a location where the local gravitational acceleration is 30 ft/s2.

Wt = mg ft 1 lbf = (180 lbm)(30 2 )( ) ft s 32.2 lbm s2 = 167.7 lbf

Example 1-3 A vacuum gage connected to a tank reads 30 kPa at a location where the atmospheric pressure is 98 kPa. What is the absolute pressure in the tank?

Pabs = Patm Pgage = 98 kPa 30 kPa = 68 kPa

Example 1-4 A pressure gage connected to a valve stem of a truck tire reads 240 kPa at a location where the atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa. What is the absolute pressure in the tire, in kPa and in psia?

Pabs = Patm Pgage = 100 kPa + 240 kPa = 340 kPa

The pressure in psia is

14.7 psia Pabs = 340 kPa = 49.3 psia 1013 kPa .

What is the gage pressure of the air in the tire, in psig?

Pgage = Pabs Patm = 49.3 psia 14.7 psia = 34.6 psig

Check the tire side walls on your car or truck. What is the maximum allowed pressure? Is this pressure in gage or absolute values? Example 1-5 Both a gage and a manometer are attached to a gas tank to measure its pressure. If the pressure gage reads 80 kPa, determine the distance between the two fluid levels of the manometer if the fluid is mercury whose density is 13,600 kg/m3.

P h= g
103 N / m3 80 kPa kPa h= kg m 1N 13600 3 9.807 2 m s kg m / s 2 = 0.6 m
Example 1-6

Water boils at 212 F at one atmosphere pressure. At what temperature does water boil in C.

T = (T 32)
EXAMPLE 17

5 5 C = (212 32) F = 100 C 9 9 F

A tank is filled with oil whose density is = 850 kg/m3. If the volume of the tank is V= 2 m3, determine the amount of mass m in the tank.

EXAMPLE 18

A manometer is used to measure the pressure in a tank. The fluid used has a specific gravity of 0.85, and the manometer column height is 55 cm, as shown in Figure below. If the local atmospheric pressure is 96 kPa, determine the absolute pressure within the
tank.

EXAMPLE 1-9 The water in a tank is pressurized by air, and the pressure is measured by a multifluid manometer as shown in Fig. 315. The tank is located on a mountain at an altitude of 1400 m where the atmospheric pressure is 85.6 kPa. Determine the air pressure in the tank if h1 = 0.1 m, h2=_ 0.2 m, and h3= 0.35 m. Take the densities of water, oil, and mercury to be 1000 kg/m3, 850 kg/m3, and 13,600 kg/m3, respectively.