The water force per meter length on a vertical wall is equal to_________________?

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1. In high floods, to avoid spilling of flood water over the gates, a wall is provided from pond level to high Flood level. This wall spans for the entire length of regulator, rest on piers, sustain water pressure by its weight called_____________________?

   A. Retaining wall
   B. Divide wall
   C. Breast wall
   D. Cantilever wall

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. The loss of head H/ L is proportional to the length of creep. There fore the loss of head per unit creep length is called ______________________?

   A. Hydraulic gradient
   B. Head loss
   C. Creep length
   D. Exit gradient

6. Bouyant force is equal to the ___________ of liquid displaced by the body in water mass?

   A. Weight
   B. Volume
   C. Specific weight
   D. Specific gravity

7. 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

8. According to Blight, the percolating water seeps along the lower contour of the hydraulic structure, the length traversed by this water is called ______________________?

   A. Creep length
   B. Seeping length
   C. Piping
   D. Undermining

9. Compressibility of a liquid is defined as vertical or contraction in volume with variation of pressure. Therefore water is considered as ___________________?

   A. Expandable
   B. In-Compressible
   C. Compressible
   D. All are correct

10. A dam which is prevented from overturning by the action of lateral or vertical up thrust of water by its weight is called __________________?

    A. Gravity dam
    B. Arch dam
    C. Buttress dam
    D. Coffer dam