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1. Consider a submarine cruising 50 m below the free surface of seawater whose density is 1025 kg/m3. The increase in
the pressure exerted on the submarine when it dives to a depth of 1000 m below the free surface is
(a) 9552 kPa
(a) 9543kPa

(b) 503 kPa

(c) 51 kPa

(d) 164 kPa

(e) 1025 kPa

2. The power required for a 5000-kg truck to climb a 600-m-long uphill with a slope of 30o in 1min at a constant
velocity is
(a) 196 kW

(b) 491 kW

(c) 392 kW

(d) 245 kW

(e) 530 kW

3. A 3-m3 tank contains 100 kg of nitrogen at 175 K. The pressure difference respectively calculated by using the
0.175
ideal-gas equation and the van der Waals equation ( p +
)(v 0.00138) = 0.2968T is
v2
(a) 1037 kPa

(b) 262 kPa

(c) 587 kPa

(d) 111 kPa

(e) 59 kPa

4. A well-insulated rigid tank contains 90 kg of air at 1 atm and 15C. Now a 1-kW electric heater and a 200-W fan are
turned on. Then the air temperature in the tank at the end of 15 min will be
(a) 36.7C

(b) 26.9C

(c) 31.7C

(d) 20.3C

(e) 41.8C

5,6. An insulated rigid tank is divided into two parts by a partition. Initially, one part contains 8 kg of an ideal gas at
800 kPa and 50 C, and the other part contains 2 kg gas at 400 kPa and 100 C. The partition is now removed, and the
final equilibrium temperature of the gas is
(a) 75 C

(b) 70 C

(c) 80 C

(d) 65 C

(e) 60 C,

(b) 557 kPa

(c) 654 kPa

(d) 490 kPa

(e) 600 kPa

and the pressure is

(a)720 kPa

7,8. A frictionless piston-cylinder device initially contains air at 200 kPa and 0.1m3. At this state, a linear spring
( F = kx ) is touching the piston but exerts no force on it. The air is now heated to a final state of 0.9 m3 and 1000
kPa. Then the total work done by the air is
(a)480 kJ

(b) 180 KJ

(c) 275 KJ

(d) 150 kJ

(e) 455 kJ, and

(c) 90 kJ

(d) 140 kJ

(e) 320 kJ

the work against the spring is

(a) 225 kJ

(b) 245 kJ

9. A piston-cylinder device initially contains 0.05m3 of ideal air at 300 kPa and 500 K. The air is now expanded to a
pressure of 100 kPa polytropically ( pv n = C ) with n is equal to the specific ratio 1.4 (called isentropic expansion).
The boundary work done during this process is
(a) 3.89 kJ

(b) 10.1 kJ

(c) 7.19 kJ

(d) 22.9 kJ

(e) 4.49 kJ

10. Air enters an adiabatic turbine steadily at 800 kPa and 600 C with a velocity of 80 m/s and leaves at 100 kPa with a
velocity of 150 m/s. The inlet area of the turbine is 0.006 m2. If the power ouput of the turbine is 200 kW, the exit
temperature of the air is
(a) 437 C

(b) 318 C

(c) 462 C

(d) 495 C

(e) 409 C

11. An insulated rigid tank initially contains 100 kg saturated liquid water and water vapor at 200C. At this state, 35%
of the mass is occupied by liquid water and the rest by vapor. Now an electric resistor placed in the tank is turned on,
and the tank is observed to contain saturated water vapor. The temperature is
(a) 236 C

(b) 211.2 C

(c) 205.2 C

(d) 222.3 C

(e) 2840 C

12. A mixing chamber that operates at a pressure of 800 kPa, water flow at inlet A is at 40 C, at inlet B is superheated
steam at 300 C, and the mixture leaves the chamber as saturated liquid. The ratio of the mass flow rate of inlets A
and B is
(1) 2.86

(2) 3.85

(3) 3.63

(4) 3.34

(5) 4.22

13,14. Two tanks are separtated by a partition. Initially Tank A contains 2-kg steam at 1MPa and 500C while Tank B
containes 3-kg 200C saturated liquid-vapor mixture with a vapor mass fration of 50%. Now the partition is removed
and the two sides are allowed to mix until the equilibrium is established. If the pressure of the final state is 400kPa,
the amount of heat loss from the tank is
(a) 4000 kJ

(b) 4791 kJ

(c) 4613 kJ (4616)

(d) 6100 kJ

(e) 7000 kJ

(c) 30 %

(d) 35%

(e) superhated

And the quality of the mixture is

(a) 38.8 %

(b) 51.4 %

15. A cylinder contains 2 kg of steam at 400 kPa and 300 C. Now steam is compressed at constant pressure until its
temperature rises to 400 C. The work done during this compression process is
(a) 207 kJ

(b) 160 kJ

(c) 188 kJ

(d) 414 kJ

(e) 99 kJ (94)

16. Steam flow steadily through an adiabatic turbine. The inlet conditions of the steam are 10MPa, 500 C, and the exit
conditions are 10kPa, 95% quality. If the mass flow rate of the steam is 5kg/s, the power output is
(a) 1.8 MW

(b) 4.6 MW

(c) 9.1 MW

(d) 13.7 MW

(e) 15.6 MW

17. Refrigerant-134a enters an adiabatic compressor at 60kPa and -10C with a volume flow rate of 0.2m3/s and leaves
at a pressure of 700kPa. If the power input to the compressor is 40 kW, then the exit refrigerant temperature is
(a) 25 C

(b) 33 C

(c) 51 C

(d) 71 C

(e) 80 C

18. Refrigerant-134a is throttled from the saturated liquid state at 1000 kPa to a pressure of 140 kPa. Then the final
specific volume of the refrigerant is
(a) 0.0128 m3/kg

(b) 0.0214 m3/kg

(c) 0.0365 m3/kg

(d) 0.0535 m3/kg

(e) 0.0723 m3/kg

19,20. A 1 m3 rigid tank contains saturated refrigerant-134a at 800 kPa. Initially, 30% of the volume is occupied by
liquid and the rest by vapor. A valve at the top of the tank is now opened, and vapor is withdrawn from the tank.
Heat is transferred to refregirant such that the pressure inside the tank remains constant. The valve is closed when
10% of the volume is occupied by liquid. The refrigereant left from the tank is
(1) 171.5 kg

(2) 285.8 kg

(3) 228.7 kg

(4) 71.5 kg

(5) 114.3 kg,

(3) 20,315 kJ

(4) 40,630 kJ

(5) 30,473 kJ

and the total heat transfer for this process is

(1) 15,236 kJ

(2) 48,756 kJ