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Fluid Mechanics JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Fluid Mechanics has 47 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 7.8 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Viscosity and Stoke's Law (23 questions), followed by Bernoulli's Theorem (9) and Pressure and Pascal's Law (9).

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47Total PYQs
6Years covered
5Topics
2025 Apr S2Latest paper

Fluid Mechanics questions per year

YearQuestions
20256
202411
202310
202211
20216
20203

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Viscosity and Stoke's Law2349%2025
Bernoulli's Theorem919%2025
Pressure and Pascal's Law919%2025
Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle37%2025
Equation of Continuity36%2023

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 3 Apr · Shift 2 · Viscosity and Stoke's Law

A solid steel ball of diameter 3.6 mm acquired terminal velocity 2.45×10−2 m/s2.45 \times 10^{-2} \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s} while falling under gravity through an oil of density 925 kg m−3925 \mathrm{~kg} \mathrm{~m}^{-3}. Take density of steel as 7825 kg m−37825 \mathrm{~kg} \mathrm{~m}^{-3} and g as 9.8 m/s29.8 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}^2. The viscosity of the oil in SI unit is

  1. (A)2.18
  2. (B)1.68
  3. (C)2.38
  4. (D)1.99

Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2025 · 3 Apr · Shift 2 · Pressure and Pascal's Law

Two cylindrical vessels of equal cross sectional area of 2 m22 \mathrm{~m}^2 contain water upto heights 10 m and 6 m , respectively. If the vessels are connected at their bottom then the work done by the force of gravity is (Density of water is 103 kg/m310^3 \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^3 and g=10 m/s2\mathrm{g}=10 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}^2 )
  1. (A)1×105 J{ }1 \times 10^5 \mathrm{~J}
  2. (B)4×104 J4 \times 10^4 \mathrm{~J}
  3. (C)8×104 J8 \times 10^4 \mathrm{~J}
  4. (D) 6×104 J6 \times 10^4 \mathrm{~J}

Answer: (C)

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JEE Main 2025 · 28 Jan · Shift 2 · Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle

A 400 g solid cube having an edge of length 10 cm floats in water. How much volume of the cube is outside the water?

(Given: density of water = 1000 kg m-3)

  1. (A)

    400 cm3

  2. (B)

    600 cm3

  3. (C)

    1400 cm3

  4. (D)

    4000 cm3

Answer: (B)

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JEE Main 2025 · 23 Jan · Shift 2 · Bernoulli's Theorem

Water flows in a horizontal pipe whose one end is closed with a valve. The reading of the pressure gauge attached to the pipe is P1P_1. The reading of the pressure gauge falls to P2P_2 when the valve is opened. The speed of water flowing in the pipe is proportional to

  1. (A)(P1−P2)2\left(P_1-P_2\right)^2
  2. (B)P1−P2\sqrt{\mathrm{P}_1-\mathrm{P}_2}
  3. (C)P1−P2P_1-P_2
  4. (D)(P1−P2)4\left(P_1-P_2\right)^4

Answer: (B)

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JEE Main 2023 · 1 Feb · Shift 2 · Equation of Continuity

The surface of water in a water tank of cross section area 750 cm2750 \mathrm{~cm}^{2} on the top of a house is h mh \mathrm{~m} above the tap level. The speed of water coming out through the tap of cross section area 500 mm2500 \mathrm{~mm}^{2} is 30 cm/s30 \mathrm{~cm} / \mathrm{s}. At that instant, dhdt\frac{d h}{d t} is x×10−3 m/sx \times 10^{-3} \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}. The value of xx will be ____________.

Answer: 2

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How many questions come from Fluid Mechanics in JEE Main?

47 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 7.8 per year. In 2025 it had 6.

Which Fluid Mechanics topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Viscosity and Stoke's Law (49%), Bernoulli's Theorem (19%) and Pressure and Pascal's Law (19%) of all Fluid Mechanics questions.

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