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Date May 2018 Marks available 1 Reference code 18M.3.HL.TZ2.10
Level Higher level Paper Paper 3 Time zone Time zone 2
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Question

Two tubes, A and B, are inserted into a fluid flowing through a horizontal pipe of diameter 0.50 m. The openings X and Y of the tubes are at the exact centre of the pipe. The liquid rises to a height of 0.10 m in tube A and 0.32 m in tube B. The density of the fluid = 1.0 × 103 kg m–3.

M18/4/PHYSI/HP3/ENG/TZ2/10

The viscosity of water is 8.9 × 10–4 Pa s.

Show that the velocity of the fluid at X is about 2 ms–1, assuming that the flow is laminar.

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a.

Estimate the Reynolds number for the fluid in your answer to (a).

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b.i.

Outline whether your answer to (a) is valid.

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b.ii.

Markscheme

\(\frac{1}{2}\rho v_{\text{X}}^2 = {p_{\text{Y}}} - {p_{\text{X}}} = \rho g\Delta h\)

vX = \(\sqrt {2 \times 9.8 \times (0.32 - 0.10)} \)

vx = 2.08 «ms–1»

[3 marks]

a.

R«\(\frac{{vr\rho }}{\eta } = \frac{{2.1 \times 0.25 \times {{10}^3}}}{{8.9 \times {{10}^{ - 4}}}}\)» 5.9 × 105

[1 mark]

b.i.

(R > 1000) flow is not laminar, so assumption is invalid

 

OWTTE

[1 mark]

b.ii.

Examiners report

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Syllabus sections

Option B: Engineering physics » Option B: Engineering physics (Additional higher level option topics) » B.3 – Fluids and fluid dynamics (HL only)
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