Civil Engineering Mcqs

The vapour pressure over the concave surface is________________?

(A) less man the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(B) equal to the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(C) greater than the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(D) zero

(D) none of the above

Submitted By: Ali Uppal


Surface energy per unit area of a surface is numerically equal to ___________________?

(A) atmospheric pressure

(B) surface tension

(C) force of adhesion

(D) force of cohesion

(D) viscosity

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Free surface of a liquid behaves like a sheet and tends to contract to smallest possible area due to the______________?

(A) force of adhesion

(B) force of cohesion

(C) force of friction

(D) force of diffusion

(D) none of die above

Submitted By: Ali Uppal


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The difference of pressure between the inside and outside of a liquid drop is_____________?

(A) p = Txr

(B) p = T/r

(C) p = T/2r

(D) p = 2T/r

(D) none of the above

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The vapour pressure over the concave surface is__________________?

(A) less man the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(B) equal to the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(C) greater than the vapour pressure over the plane surface

(D) zero

(D) none of the above

Submitted By: Ali Uppal


The process of diffusion of one liquid into the other through a semi-permeable membrane is called _______________?

(A) viscosity

(B) osmosis

(C) surface tension

(D) cohesion

(D) diffusivity

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The continuity equation is connected with_______________?

(A) viscous/unviscous fluids

(B) compressibility of fluids

(C) conservation of mass

(D) steady/unsteady flow

(D) open channel/pipe flow

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Liquids transmit pressure equally in all the directions. This is according to_________________?

(A) Boyle’s law

(B) Archimedes principle

(C) Pascal’s law

(D) Newton’s formula

(D) Chezy’s equation

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In an isothermal atmosphere, the pressure__________________?

(A) decreases linearly with elevation

(B) remains constant

(C) varies in the same way as the density

(D) increases exponentially with elevation

(D) unpredictable

Submitted By: Ali Uppal