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KIPPAP EDUCATION
29 Critical Flow

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the Situation 3:

following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by The cross section of a trapezoidal channel is shown.
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on Side slopes are 2V:3H and the discharge is 30 cms.
the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only.
Critical Flow

Situation 1:
A 3-meter wide rectangular channel having a specific
energy of 2 meters has a discharge of 5 cms. 11. Determine the critical depth.
a. 0.308 m c. 0.926 m
1. Determine the two depths having the given specific b. 6.79 m d. 2.207 m
energy.
a. 1.96 and 0.29 c. 1.14 and 2.37 12. Find the minimum energy that gives the same
b. 1.08 and 0.67 d. 0.61 and 0.93 amount of flow.
a. 0.62 m c. 1.59 m
2. Determine the critical depth of flow. b. 1.39 m d. 1.76 m
a. 0.53 m c. 1.08 m
b. 0.66 m d. 2.37 m
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3. Determine the critical velocity.
a.
b.
2.54 m/s
3.14 m/s
c.
d.
1.54 m
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4. Determine the minimum specific energy.
a. 0.80 m c. 1.62 m
working twenty-four hours a
b. 0.98 m d. 3.56 m day to take it all away from
Situation 2:
Water flows at a rate of 12 cms in a triangular you.”
channel that has a vertex angle of 70˚. If the flow
depth in the channel is 1.0 m, -Mark Cuban

5. Determine the type of flow in the channel.

a. Critical c. Supercritical
b. Subcritical d. Anticritical

6. Determine the Froude number.

a. 0.61 c. 1
b. 7.74 d. 2.38

7. Determine the specific energy.

a. 16 m c. 7m
b. 10 m d. 5m

8. Determine the alternate depth corresponding to the

actual flow depth.
a. 16 m c. 7m
b. 10 m d. 5m

9. Determine critical depth.

a. 4.5 m c. 2.3 m
b. 3.0 m d. 2.0 m

10. A triangular channel with side slopes of 3V:2H and

bed slope of 0.002 is designed to carry a discharge of
8 cms. The channel is made of clean, excavated earth
materials with n = 0.022. Calculate the specific
energy of water.
a. 4.79 m c. 2.68 m
b. 1.67 m d. 2.82 m

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