{"id":159772,"date":"2023-09-16T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=159772"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T08:38:21","slug":"a-closed-tank-contains-0-5-m-thick-layer-of-mercury-specific-gravity-13-6-at-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-closed-tank-contains-0-5-m-thick-layer-of-mercury-specific-gravity-13-6-at-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"A closed tank contains 0.5 m thick layer of mercury (specific gravity = 13.6) at the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. A closed tank contains 0.5 m thick layer of mercury (specific gravity = 13.6) at the bottom. A 2.0 m thick layer of water lies above the mercury layer. A 3.0 m thick layer of oil (specific gravity = 0.6) lies above the water layer. The space above the oil layer contains air under pressure. The gauge pressure at the bottom of the tank is 196.2 kN\/m<sup>2<\/sup>. The density of water is 1000 kg\/m<sup>3<\/sup> and the acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m\/s<sup>2<\/sup>. The value of pressure in the air space is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(A) 92.214 kN\/m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (B) 95.644 kN\/m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (C) 98.922 kN\/m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (D) 99.321 kN\/m<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 92.214 kN\/m2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-66.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-66.png 387w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-66-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. A closed tank contains 0.5 m thick layer of mercury (specific gravity = 13.6) at the bottom. A 2.0 m thick layer of water lies above the mercury layer. A 3.0 m thick layer of oil (specific gravity = 0.6) lies above the water layer. The space above the oil layer contains air under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":159776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-159772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159777,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159772\/revisions\/159777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}