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Atmospheric pressure and its consequences - class-VIII

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The commonly used barometric liquid in a barometer is Mercury.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

commonly used barometer to measure pressure is filled with mercury such that 1 atm = 76 cm of Hg .

so option (A) is correct .

________ is an instrument used to measure the atmospheric pressure.

  1. Barometer

  2. Calorimeter

  3. Thermometer

  4. Speedometer


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Barometer is the instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.

calorimeter and thermometer is used to measure temperatture.
speedometer is used to measure the speed of the vehicles.
so option (A) is correct

A barometric liquid having high density produces a shorter column of liquid.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 pressure = $\rho$gh 

pressure remains constant so as $\rho$ will increase height will be shortened to get the same pressure .
so given statement is true , hence option (A) is correct

The space above the mercury column in a barometer is torricellian vacuum.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

torricellian vacuum is the vaccum formed above the column of mercury in a barometer.

so opton (A) is correct

A barometer reads mercury level of $72\ cm$ at a location above sea level. If someone turns barometer  tube by $37^{o}$ with vertical, find the new reading of barometer.

  1. $76\ cm$

  2. $72\ cm$

  3. $90\ cm$

  4. $68\ cm$


Correct Option: C

The empty space above mercury in a simple barometer is called _______vaccum

  1. pressure

  2. barometric

  3. torricellian

  4. mercuric


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Torricellian vacuum
The vacuum formed when a long tube, closed at one end and filled with mercury, is inverted into a mercury reservoir so that the open end of the tube is below the surface of the mercury. The pressure inside the Torricellian vacuum is the vapour pressure of mercury, about $103\ torr.$

The space above the mercury in a simple barometer is called 

  1. Torcelian vacuum

  2. Newton's vacuum

  3. Archimede's vacuum

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Torricellian vacuum
The vacuum formed when a long tube, closed at one end and filled with mercury, is inverted into a mercury reservoir so that the open end of the tube is below the surface of the mercury. The pressure inside the Torricellian vacuum is the vapour pressure of mercury, about 103 torr.

The moisture present in mercury ______ the barometric height of simple barometer

  1. increases

  2. decreases

  3. doesn't change

  4. can't say


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The instrument that measures air pressure is a barometer.  There are two types of barometers, mercury and aneroid. In 1643, Toricelli invented the mercury barometer when he inserted a glass tube in a dish of mercury and observed the day-to-day variations in the height of the mercury column. When the atmospheric pressure was high, the greatest pressure was exerted on the mercury in the dish, causing the mercury in the glass tube to rise.  When the pressure was low, the mercury in the glass tube fell. The contemporary aneroid barometer employs a vacuum chamber sensitive to external pressure changes.  Contraction and expansion of the vacuum chamber, linked mechanically to an indicator needle, move the needle clockwise when the pressure rises and counter clockwise when the pressure falls.

The vertical height of mercury which a simple barometer can support at sea level is 

  1. $76 cm$

  2. more than $76cm$

  3. less than $76 cm$

  4. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Answer is C.

The mercury level in the tube of the barometer falls until it is about $76 cm (760 mm)$ vertically above the mercury level. It is the atmospheric pressure acting on the surface of the mercury in the trough that supports the vertical mercury column.
The atmospheric pressure is therefore specified by so many millimetres of mercury. For example, the atmospheric pressure is $760 mm$ Hg at sea level.
Hence, 
The vertical height of mercury which a simple barometer can support at sea level is less than 76 cm. 

The purpose of a barometer is

  1. To measure atmospheric temperature.

  2. To measure altitude.

  3. To measure atmospheric pressure.

  4. To measure atmospheric pollution.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A barometer is an instrument that is used to measure pressure.

Barometer is used for measuring:

  1. Liquid pressure

  2. Thrust

  3. Atmospheric pressure

  4. Air temp


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A barometer is a device used for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A classic mercury barometer is constructed from a 3-foot glass tube that is open at one end and sealed at the opposite end. The glass tube is filled with liquid mercury and rests upside-down in a reservoir of mercury. As the mercury moves down the glass tube, a vacuum is created. When the atmospheric pressure above the reservoir increases, the mercury inside the tube rises. As atmospheric pressure decreases the mercury moves down the tube, into the reservoir.The change in the mercury level in the glass tube is equal to the pressure exerted by the air above the reservoir and is measured using the scale marked on the glass tube. 

A manometer is used to measure

  1. Height

  2. Pressure

  3. liquid density

  4. Atmospheric pressure


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A manometer is any device used to measure pressure. However, the word manometer is commonly used to mean a pressure sensor which detects pressure change by means of liquid in a tube.
Manometers are differential pressure sensors. A differential pressure sensor measures the difference between a pressure being applied to it and a reference pressure (often atmospheric pressure). 

Atmospheric pressure is measured by

  1. Barometer

  2. Manometer

  3. Screw gauge

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Answer is A.

A barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. A simple barometer consists of a long glass tube (closed at one end, open at the other) filled with mercury and turned upside down into a container of mercury. The barometer works by balancing the mercury in the glass tube against the outside air pressure, just like a set of scales. As air pressure increasesthat is, as the air becomes heavierit pushes more of the mercury up into the tube. As air pressure decreases, more of the mercury drains from the tube. So the level of mercury in the tube provides a precise measure of air pressure.

The mercury barometer was invented by:

  1. Celsius

  2. fahrenheit

  3. Torricelli

  4. Bernoulli


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
  • The mercury Barometre was invented by Torricelli.
The tube in simple barometer is filled ________ with mercury.
  1. Half

  2. Three-fourth

  3. Completely

  4. Two-third


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The tube in a simple barometer is 'completely' filled with mercury so that no air bubble is left inside the tube. 

Air creates as much pressure as created by ....... $cm$ of vertical height of mercury column in a simple barometer.
  1. $22$

  2. $36$

  3. $76$

  4. $260$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The height to which mercury rises in simple barometer is $76cm$.

This is the reason that  atmospheric pressure is often expressed as $76cm$ of Hg at sea level.

Simple barometer was first discovered in

  1. $1886$

  2. $1991$

  3. $1643$

  4. $1362$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A mercury barometer was discovered by Torricelli in the year 1643. 

Hydraulic brakes are based on.

  1. Dulong and Petit's law

  2. Pascal's law

  3. Pressure law

  4. Dalton's law of partial pressure


Correct Option: B

They does the mercury column in the barometer fall rapidly before a severe storm?

  1. It is due to the fall in atmospheric pressure

  2. It is due to the rise in atmospheric pressure

  3. It is due to decrease in humidity in air

  4. It is due to the severe heat energy from the sun


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The mercury column in the barometer fall rapidly before a severe storm, It is due to Fall in the atmospheric pressure. In general, a falling barometer indicates the approach of a storm. If the mercury is over 30.20 inches but falling quickly, warmer, cloudier weather is coming 

Hence option A is a right answer

The vertical height of the mercury column in a barometer remains unaffected even if the tube is tilted.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Tilting of tube does not brings any change in height  as  pressure depends on height and as it is not changing. 

so given statement is true
so option (A) is correct .

The height of a barometer at a temperature of $30^{o}$ appears to be $76\ cm$ according to the brass scale which gives correct reading at $0^{o}C$. $(\alpha _{Brass}=19\times 10^{-6}/ , \gamma _{Hg}=180\times 10^{-6}/ )$ 

  1. $74.22\ cm$

  2. $77.44\ cm$

  3. $78.49\ cm$

  4. $79.94\ cm$


Correct Option: A

When a barometer reading suddenly recedes it indicates that climate:

  1. will be very warm

  2. will be extremely stormy

  3. will remain cold

  4. incessant rain for at least $48$ hours.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In summer, when the barometer falls suddenly, a thunderstorm can be expected, and if it does not rise again upon its cessation, the weather will probably continue unsettled for several days. In summer, when a thunderstorm happens, there is little or no depression of the barometer.

A barometer kept in an elevator reads $76\ cm$ when it is at rest. If the elevator goes up with some acceleration, the reading will be

  1. $76\ cm$

  2. $> 76\ cm$

  3. $< 76\ cm$

  4. Zero


Correct Option: A

The reading of a barometer containing some air above the mercury column is 73cm while that of a correct one is 76 cm. If the tube of the faulty barometer is pushed down into mercury until volume of air in it is reduced to half, the reading shown by it will be 

  1. 70 CM

  2. 72 CM

  3. 74 CM

  4. 76 CM


Correct Option: A

To construct a barometer, a tube of length $1 m$ filled completely with mercury and is inverted in a mercury cup. The barometer reading on a particular day is $76\ cm$. Suppose a $1 m$ tube is filled with mercury up to $76\ cm$ and then closed by a cork. It is inverted in a mercury column in the tube over the surface in the cup will be

  1. Zero

  2. $76\ cm$

  3. $> 76\ cm$

  4. $< 76\ cm.$


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The tube contains air $($because it is not fully filled$).$ This air pressure against atmosphere pressure$,$ 

therefore$,$ height of column $<76cm$ 
Hence,
option $(D)$ is correct answer.

By sucking through a straw, a student can reduce the pressure in his lungs to 750 mm of Hg (density = 13.6 gm/ $cm^3$). Using the straw, he can drink water from a glass up to a maximum depth of

  1. 10 cm

  2. 75 cm

  3. 13.6 cm

  4. 1.36 cm


Correct Option: C

Brass scale of a Barometer gives correct reading at  $0 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C } .$  coefficient of linear expansion of brass is  $18 \times 10 ^ { - 6 } / ^ { - 6 } \mathrm { C } .$  If the barometer reads  $76\mathrm { cm } $ at   $20 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C } ,$  the correct reading is $\left( \gamma _ { \mathrm { Hg } } = 18 \times 10 ^ { - 5 } / 0 \mathrm { C } \right)$

  1. $76.426 \mathrm { cm }$

  2. $75.7 \mathrm { cm }$

  3. $76.2736 \mathrm { cm }$

  4. $76.264 \mathrm { cm }$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

$L _0=75$cm

$\begin{array}{l} a=18\times { 10^{ -6 } }{ /^{ 0 } }C \ \Delta T=20-0={ 27^{ 0 } }C \end{array}$
We know that the formula for the coefficient of linear expansion
$\begin{array}{l} L={ L _{ 0 } }\left( { 1+\alpha \Delta T } \right)  \ L=76\left( { 1+18\times { { 10 }^{ -6 } }\times 20 } \right)  \ =76\left( { 1+0.00036 } \right)  \ =76\times 1.00036 \ =76.2736 \end{array}$
Atmospheric pressure at $20^0C$ is $76.2736$ cm of brass.

A barometer kept in a stationary elevator reads $76 \mathrm { cm } ,$ If the elevator starts accelerating up the reading willbe 

  1. Zero

  2. equal to 76$\mathrm { cm }$

  3. more than 76$\mathrm { cm }$

  4. less than 76$\mathrm { cm }$


Correct Option: D

State whether true or false:

A simple barometer is compact and portable. 

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

FALSE
A simple barometer is neither portable nor compact. Thus, it cannot be carried from one place to other.
Since the apparatus is made up of glass, so there is also a chance of breaking.

State whether true or false:

The air pressure can support $13.10 m$ vertical column of mercury. 

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

$P = \rho gh$, where
$P = $air pressure $= 101325Pa$
$\rho = $density of mercury$ = 13594kg/{m}^{3}$
$\implies h = 0.76m$

It can support 0.76 m vertical column of mercury.
Hence the given statement is false.

Water barometer is possible provided barometer tube is _____$m$ long.

  1. $1$

  2. $3$

  3. $5$

  4. $11$


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

If water would be used in barometer, barometer tube should have the huge height of $10.3m$ Mercury is $13.6$ times more dense than water and a column weight of only $760 mm$ of Hg equals the forces generated by atmospheric pressure, so the tube can be much shorter.

Mercury is more dense. Its relative density is $13.534$ times that of water. So, to measure the atmospheric pressure, which is $760 mm$ of mercury you need a barometer ,with mercury, of length slightly more than $0.76 m$, say one meter to cover the special cases of some higher pressure. If you use water, you have to have the length of barometer of length (or height)  $13.534$ times the length of mercury barometer, which may be more than $11 m$ in length. Further mercury, being a metal has the shining quality which highlight its reading clear. Also mercury, having comparatively lower specific heat and good conductor of heat, could come to the same temperature of the atmosphere more quickly.

Water is not used as a barometric liquid because 

  1. it is difficult to have a barometer tube 11 m long.

  2. water vaporises under vacuum conditions.

  3. water sticks to the side of glass tube.

  4. all the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Mercury is more dense. Its relative density is $13.534$ times that of water. So, to measure the atmospheric pressure, which is $760 mm$ of mercury you need a barometer ,with mercury, of length slightly more than $0.76 m$, say one meter to cover the special cases of some higher  pressure. If you use water, you have to have the length of barometer of  length (or height)  $13.534$ times the length of mercury barometer, which  may be more than $11 m$ in length. 


Further mercury, being a metal has the shining quality which highlight its reading clear. Also mercury, having comparatively lower specific heat and good conductor of heat, could come to the same temperature of the atmosphere more quickly.

The weight of the column of the mercury in the tube above the surface of the mercury in the cup is balanced by

  1. The weight of air column

  2. Friction Force

  3. Viscous Force

  4. Buoyant force


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Answer is A

The weight of mercury column is balanced by air weight and the weight of mercury column is used to calculate the pressure. 

Which of the following scientists invented the mercury barometer?

  1. Blaise Pascal

  2. Evangelist Torricelli

  3. James Joule

  4. Robert Brown


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Mercury barometer was invented by scientist Evangelist Torricelli

It is known fact
Therefore option $B$ is correct 

A barometer kept in a stationary elevator reads $76$ cm. If the elevator starts accelerating up the reading will be:

  1. Zero

  2. Equal to $76$cm

  3. More than $76$cm

  4. Less than $76$cm


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The movement of elevator up will increase value of g which will result in increase in pressure leading to increase in reading of barometer.

A nurse measures the blood pressure of a seated patient to be $190$ mm of Hg.

  1. the blood pressure at the patient's feet is less than $190$ mm of Hg.

  2. the actual pressure is about $0.25$ times the atmospheric pressure.

  3. the blood pressure at the patient's neck is more than $190$ mm of Hg.

  4. the actual pressure is about $1.25$ times the atmospheric pressure.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

${ P } _{ exp }=P _{ 0 }+{ P } _{ Actual }\ 190=76+{ P } _{ Actual }\ { P } _{ Actual }=114mm\quad of\quad Hg\ Factor=\cfrac { { P } _{ Actual } }{ { P } _{ atm } } =\cfrac { 114 }{ 76 } \approx 1.25$

Match the following.

List-I(Measuring Instruments) List-II(Which measure)
A. Anemometer $1$. Motor Power
B. Tachometer $2$. Wind speed
C. Dynamometer $3$. Revolutions per minute
D. Barometer $4$. Atmospheric pressure
$5$. Current from a dynamo
  1. A-$2$, B-$3$, C-$1$, D-$4$

  2. A-$2$, B-$1$, C-$3$, D-$4$

  3. A-$1$, B-$3$, C-$5$, D-$4$

  4. A-$1$, B-$3$, C-$5$, D-$2$


Correct Option: A

A barometer kept in a stationary elevator reads 76 cm. If the elevator starts accelerating up, the reading in barometer will be:

  1. Zero

  2. Equal to 76 cm

  3. More than 76 cm

  4. Less than 76 cm


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Since the elevator is accelerating up, so, the force will act in the downward direction.

Therefore, the reading in the barometer will be less than 76 cm

The atmospheric pressure and height of barometer column is $10^5 P _a$ and 760mm respectively on the earth surface. If the barometer is taken to moon then column height will be

  1. zero

  2. 76 mm

  3. 126.6 mm

  4. 760 mm


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Since there is no atmosphere on moon, no atmospheric pressure will be there and hence corresponding to 0 pressure, height of mercury column will be 0.


Answer is option A.

Fill in blanks. 
Atmosphere pressure _________ with increase in altitude 

  1. increases

  2. decreases

  3. remains same

  4. cannot be determined


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Pressure with Height: pressure decreases with increasing altitude. The pressure at any level in the atmosphere may be interpreted as the total weight of the air above a unit area at any elevation. At higher elevations, there are fewer air molecules above a given surface than a similar surface at lower levels. For example, there are fewer molecules above the 50 km surface that are found above the 12 km surface, which is why the pressure is less at 50 km.

Hence, Atmosphere pressure decrease with an increase in altitude 

By blowing between two balloons hanging close to each other you observe that they come closer. A similar phenomenon is seen in

  1. The lifting of an aeroplane

  2. Kite flying

  3. The lifting of balloon filled with

  4. Take off of rocket


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Due to present difference.

As we go higher and higher atmospheric pressure _______.

  1. Increases

  2. Decreases

  3. Remains Same

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

As we go to higher attitudes, atmospheric pressure decreases due to less air molecules on comparision to that at sea level. 

Atmospheric pressure decreases with increase in height.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Atmospheric pressure decreases with increase in height & pressure at a point at height h.

               P = Po - Sgh.

A given mass of gas occupies a volume $100 c.c$ at one atmosphere pressure and temperature of $100^oC$. Temperature being the same, the volume of the gas atmosphere pressure is

  1. $100 c.c$

  2. $400c.c$

  3. $25c.c$

  4. $200c.c$


Correct Option: B

The density of the atmosphere at sea level is 1.29 $kg/m^{2}$. assume that it does not change with altitude. then how high would the atmosphere extend?

  1. 3 km

  2. 7 km

  3. 8 km

  4. 9 km


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
We know that $p=pgh$
p is atmospheric pressure, g in acceration due to gravity
$p = 1.29 kg/m^{2} ; p-=1.013\times 10\, N/m$
$\therefore h=\dfrac{p}{pg}=\dfrac{1.013\times 10^{5}}{1.29\times 9.8}$  $= 8013 \,km$
hence atmospheric extended 8013 km high from the sea level

we do not get crushed by the atmospheric pressure as the out internal pressure and the atmospheric pressure are?

  1. equal

  2. greater

  3. lower

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A

The pressure P of a gas and its mean translational KE per unit volume are related as:

  1. $P=\dfrac{1}{2}E$

  2. $P=E$

  3. $P=\dfrac{3}{2}E$

  4. $P=(\dfrac{2}{3})E$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

$\begin{array}{l} \therefore \, \, { V _{ rms } }=\sqrt { \dfrac { { 3PV } }{ M }  }  \ E=\dfrac { 1 }{ 2 } M\, \, { V _{ rms } }^{ 2 }=\dfrac { 3 }{ 2 } PV=\dfrac { 3 }{ 2 } P\, \, \left[ { \therefore \, \, V=1 } \right]  \end{array}$

Ans. (C)

Find the ratio of a systolic blood pressure of $120$ (in mm of Hg) to atmospheric pressure. Standard atmospheric pressure is $1.01\times 10^{5}\ Pa$

  1. 0.16

  2. 1.6

  3. 16

  4. 160


Correct Option: A

On heating water from $0^0 C$ to $100^0 C$ its volume 

  1. Increases at each $^0 C$

  2. First increase till $4^0 C$ and then decreases

  3. First decrease till $4^0 C$ and then increases

  4. Remains same


Correct Option: C

The volume of a given amount of water ______ when its temperature is increased form $0^0 C$ to $4^0 C$.

  1. decreases

  2. remains the same

  3. increase

  4. first increases and then decreases.


Correct Option: A

A air bubble rises from bottom of a lake to surface If its radius increases by 200% and atmospheric pressure is equal to water coloumn of height H. then depth of lake is 

  1. 21H

  2. 8H

  3. 9H

  4. 26H


Correct Option: B

A large bottle is fitted with a capillary siphon. Ratio of times taken to empty the bottle when it is filled with (i) water (ii) petroleum of relative density 0.8.

$( _{water} = 0.001poise, _{petroleum} = 0.002 poise, d _{water} = 1000 kg/m^3)$

  1. 5/4

  2. 4/5

  3. 2/5

  4. 3/5


Correct Option: C

Siphon will fail to work if

  1. the densities of the liquid in the two vessels are equal

  2. the level of the liquid in the two vessels are at the same height

  3. both its limbs are of unequal length

  4. the temperature of the liquids in the two vessels are the same


Correct Option: B

A ${ 16cm }^{ 3 }$ volume of water flows per second through a capillary tube of radius r cm and of length 1 cm, when connected to a pressure head of h cm of water. If a tube of the same length and radius r/2 is connected to the same pressure head, find the mass of water flowing per minute through the tube 

  1. 80 gram/min

  2. 70 gram/min

  3. 60 gram/min

  4. 50 gram/min


Correct Option: C

If it takes $5$ minutes to fill a 15 litre bucket  from a water tap of diameter $\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}}$ cm then the Reynolds number for the flow is (density of water = $10^3 kg/m^3$ and viscosity of water = $10^{-3}$Pa.s) close to

  1. $11,000$

  2. $550$

  3. $1100$

  4. $5500$


Correct Option: D
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