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Physics - Mechanical Properties of Fluids

Practise 26 KVPY previous year questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids, compiled from papers spanning 2011 to 2020. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty KVPY tests.

  1. 1A submarine has a window of area 30 30 cm 2 on its ceiling and is at a depth of 100 m below sea level in a sea. If the pressure inside the s2020 (SA)
  2. 2The platelets are drifting with the blood flowing in a streamline flow through a horizontal artery as shown below: Artery is contracted in r2020 (SA)
  3. 3A bottle has a thin nozzle on top. It is filled with water, held horizontally at a height of 1 m and squeezed slowly by hands so that the wa2020 (SB/SX)
  4. 4A steel ball is dropped in a viscous liquid. The distance of the steel ball from the top of the liquid is shown below. The terminal velocity2019 (SA)
  5. 5A healthy adult of height 1 . 7 m has an average blood pressure (BP) of 100 mm of Hg . The heart is typically at a height of 1 . 3 m from th2019 (SA)
  6. 6Consider the wall of a dam to be straight with height H and length L . It holds a lake of water of height h h H on one side. Let the density2019 (SB/SX)
  7. 7Consider the configuration of a stationary water tank of cross-section area A 0 and a small bucket as shown in figure below; What should be 2019 (SB/SX)
  8. 8A bubble of radius R in water of density is expanding uniformly at speed v . Given that water is incompressible, the kinetic energy of water2019 (SB/SX)
  9. 9A block of wood is floating on water at 0 C with volume V 0 above water. When the temperature of water increases from 0 to 10 C , the change2018 (SA)
  10. 10A very large block of ice of the size of a volleyball court and of uniform thickness of 8 m is floating on water. A person standing near its2018 (SA)
  11. 11Figures below show water flowing through a horizontal pipe from left to right. Note that the pipe in the middle is narrower. Choose the most2018 (SB/SX)
  12. 12Air (density ) is being blown on a soap film (surface tension T ) by a pipe of radius R with its opening right next to the film. The film is2018 (SB/SX)
  13. 13A cylindrical vessel of base radius and height has a narrow neck of height and radius at one end (see figure). The vessel is filled with wat19 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  14. 14The bhagirathi and the Alaknanda merge at Deoprayag toform the Ganga with their speeds in the ratio . The cross-sectional areas of the Bhagi19 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  15. 15A spherical marble of radius is stuck in a circular hole of radius slightly smaller than its own radius (for calculation purpose, both can b05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  16. 16In Guericke's experiment to show the effect of atmospheric pressure, two copper hemispheres were tightly fitted to each other to fom a hollo05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  17. 17Consider a bowl filled with water on which some black pepper powder have been sprinkled uniformly. Now a drop of liquid soap is added at the05 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  18. 18A nurse measures the blood pressure of a seated patient to be of -2016 (SB/SX)
  19. 19Stoke's law states that the viscous drag force experience by a sphere of radius a, moving with a speed through a fluid with coefficient of v2015 (SA)
  20. 20A machine is blowing spherical soap bubbles of different raddi filled with helium gas. It is found that if the bubbles have a radius smaller2014 (SA)
  21. 21Water containing air bubbles flows without turbulence through a horizontal pipe which has a region of narrow cross- section. In this region 2014 (SB/SX)
  22. 22A tall tank filled with water has an irregular shape as shown. The wall makes an angle of with the horizontal; the wall is normal to the bas2013 (SA)
  23. 23A solid cube and a solid sphere both made of same material are completely submerged in water but to different depths. The sphere and the cub2012 (SA)
  24. 24A particle released from rest is falling through a thick fluid under gravity. The fluid exerts a resistive force on the particle proportiona2012 (SB/SX)
  25. 25We sit in the room with windows open. Then2011 (SA)
  26. 26An object with uniform density is attached to a spring that is known to stretch linearly with applied force as shown below. When the spring-2011 (SA)

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Mechanical Properties of Fluids?

This chapter includes 26 questions compiled from KVPY papers spanning 2011 to 2020.

2.Are these questions only from KVPY, or from other exams too?

These are KVPY questions specifically for the Mechanical Properties of Fluids chapter. Questions from other exams like JEE Main or NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Mechanical Properties of Fluids an important chapter for KVPY Physics?

Mechanical Properties of Fluids has appeared in 10 of the 11 years of KVPY papers covered here, with 26 questions across 17 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.