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1) This document contains a multiple choice test with questions regarding thermodynamic processes and heat engines. 2) Questions ask about the internal energy and specific enthalpy changes for ideal gases undergoing isothermal and adiabatic processes like compression and expansion. Maximum efficiencies for Carnot engines at different temperature ranges are also addressed. 3) Problems involve calculating work, heat, and entropy changes for the reversible processes of gases like CO2 and air. Diagrams are to be sketched illustrating temperature-entropy and pressure-volume relationships.

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1) This document contains a multiple choice test with questions regarding thermodynamic processes and heat engines. 2) Questions ask about the internal energy and specific enthalpy changes for ideal gases undergoing isothermal and adiabatic processes like compression and expansion. Maximum efficiencies for Carnot engines at different temperature ranges are also addressed. 3) Problems involve calculating work, heat, and entropy changes for the reversible processes of gases like CO2 and air. Diagrams are to be sketched illustrating temperature-entropy and pressure-volume relationships.

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Question (1): A1 [Total 16 marks]

Choose the correct answer:

1) An ideal gas with an internal energy U initially at 0 ̊C is heated to 273 ̊C. What is the new
internal energy in terms of U?
i) U ii) 1/2U iii) 1/4U iv) 2U

2) A Carnot engine operates between 100°C and 16°C. Its maximum possible efficiency is:
i) 90.1% ii) 100% iii) 38.8% iv) 22.5%

5) If a perfect gas has an specific enthalpy h1 is compressed isothermally to one-half of its


original pressure. The new specific enthalpy of the perfect gas will equal
i) 1/2 h1 ii) 2 h1 iii) h1 iv) 1/4 h1

8) A container filled with a sample of an ideal gas at the pressure of 1.5 bar. The gas is
compressed isothermally to one-fourth of its original volume. What is the new pressure
of the gas?
i) 2 bar ii) 3 bar iii) 4 bar iv) 5 bar v) 6 bar

10) How much energy is required to raise the temperature of 5.00 kg of lead from 20.0o C to
its melting point of 327o C? The specific heat of lead is 128 J/kg . oC.

i) 4.04  105 J ii) 1.07  105 J iii) 8.15  104 J


iv) 2.13  104 J v)1.96  105 J

11) An engine transfers 2.00 × 103 J of energy from a hot reservoir during a cycle and
Transfers 1.50 ×103 J as exhaust to a cold reservoir. The efficiency of the engine.
i. 40.5 %
ii. 20.0 %
iii. 2.5 %
iv. 25.0 %

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12) A heat engine absorbs 2500 J of heat from a hot reservoir and expels 1000 J to a
cold reservoir. When it is run in reverse, with the same reservoirs, the engine pumps
2500 J of heat to the hot reservoir, requiring 1000 J of work to do so. Find the ratio
of the work done by the heat engine to the work done by the pump.
i.1.0
ii.1.5
iii.2.5
iv.More information is needed

13) An ideal heat engine can have an efficiency of 1 if the temperature of the low
temperature reservoir is

i. zero
ii. less than 10°C.
iii. more than zero.
iv. the same as the temperature of the heat source

14) A Carnot cycle, operating as a heat engine, consists, in the order given, of

i. an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal


compression and an adiabatic compression.
ii. an adiabatic expansion, an adiabatic compression, an isothermal
expansion and an isothermal compression.
iii. an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic compression, an
isothermal compression and an adiabatic expansion.
iv. an adiabatic compression, an isothermal compression, an
isothermal expansion and an adiabatic expansion.
v. an isothermal expansion, an isothermal compression, an
adiabatic expansion and an adiabatic compression.

15)The heat flow to or from a system is zero if the process is:


i) Adiabatic
ii) Isentropic
iii) In a perfectly thermally insulated container
iv) Any of the above
v) None of the above

16) In a thermodynamic process, the internal energy of a system in a container with adiabatic
walls decreases by 800 J. Which statement is correct?
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i) The surroundings performed 800 J of work on the system
ii) The system gained 800 J by heat transfer from its surroundings
iii) The system performed 800 J of work on its surroundings
iv) The system lost 800 J by heat transfer to its surroundings
v) The 800 J of work done by the system was equal to the 800 J of heat transferred to
the system from its surroundings.

Question (3): A3 [Total 8 marks]


a) A mass of 0.05 kg of carbon dioxide (molar mass 44 kg/k mol), occupying a volume of

0.03 m3 at 1.025 bar, is compressed reversibly until the pressure is 6.15 bar. Calculate the
final temperature, the work done on the CO 2 , the heat supplied and the entropy
change:
i)When the process is according to a law pv1.4=constant.
ii)When the process is isothermal.
iii)When the process takes place in a perfectly thermally insulated cylinder.
Assume carbon dioxide to be a perfect gas, and take ˠ= 1.3.
Sketch T-s and p-v diagrams.

b. 1 m3 of air is heated reversibly at constant pressure from 15 to 300 °C, and is


then cooled reversibly at constant volume back to the initial temperature. The
initial pressure is 1.03 bar. Calculate the net heat flow and the overall change
of entropy, Sketch the T-s and p-v diagrams.

[ For air R = 0.287 kJ/kg.oK, CV = 0.718 kJ/kg.oK, CP = 1.005 kJ/kg.oK, = 1.4 ]

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