A. Weight
B. Volume
C. Specific weight
D. Specific gravity
Related Mcqs:
- When ever a body is immersed wholly or partially in water, it is lifted up by a force equal to the weight of water displaced by the body ?
A. Archimed’s Principle
B. Law of gravity
C. Newton’s law of otion
D. None of these - The field capacity is the water retained by a saturated soil after free drainage of surplus water to the ground water table but the water retained by a saturated soil after being centrifuged by a centrifugal force of 1000 times that of gravity is called________________?
A. Soil moisture
B. Equivalent moisture
C. Field moisture
D. Available moisture - Specific weight of a liquid is defined as the weight per unit volume at standard Temperature & pressure therefore specific weight of water of water is equal to ____________ kg/m3 in MKS system ?
A. 990
B. 995
C. 999
D. 1000 - The ratio between the force causing a body to slide along a plane and the force normal to the plane is called __________________?
A. Coefficient of friction
B. Coefficient of internal friction
C. Coefficient of resistance
D. All are correct - The contour of equal water heads and pressure in the soil mass beneath retaining structure are called___________________?
A. Stream lines
B. Equipotential lines
C. Equilibrium lines
D. Streak lines - Specific gravity of a liquid is defined as the ratio of its specific weight to that of pure water and standard temperature and pressure. Therefore specific gravity is equal to ___________________?
A. 1.0
B. 1.2
C. 1.5
D. 2.0 - Surface tension is the property of a liquid which enables it to resist tensile stress. the surface tension of water is equal to ______________ Kg/m?
A. 0.0056
B. 0.006
C. 0.0065
D. 0.0075 - The water force per meter length on a vertical wall is equal to_________________?
A. w H
B. W.H/2
C. WH2 2
D. wh2 - At the end of hydraulic structure, the upward force of sub-soil water just becomes equal to the submerged weight of soil grains Then exit gradient will be called______________?
A. Submerged exit gradient
B. Critical exit gradient
C. Balanced exit gradient
D. All are correct - The field capacity is the amount of water retained by a saturated soil mass after being acted by gravity. The amount of water required to bring the soil moisture content of that soil up to field capacity is called__________________?
A. Soil-moisture deficiency
B. Field-moisture deficiency
C. Equivalent-moisture deficiency
D. a and b are correct
