ME 121 A2 & B6 EXAM 2-A (Take-home Exam) April 3, 2017 Due on: Not later than 5:00 pm April

than 5:00 pm April 7,2017

Name:________________________________ Section:____________

Provide the solutions to the following problems taken from Chapter 2 of Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics
7th Ed. by M. J. Moran, H. N. Shapiro, et al. Solutions should be written on 8.5"13" sized paper along with your name.
Include this page as your front page. Each problem has a 10-point score. Five (5) points will be given to correct solutions
with minor errors. Hence, scores on each problem will only be zero, 5 or 10. Dont try to submit late (+15
tolerance), or else your submission will not be accepted. Exam 2-A score will only be of value if you will get 50% or
higher score in Exam 2-B (supervised exam), otherwise Exam 2-A will be considered failed. Both examinations are to be
treated independently in your records. Be sure you know what you are writing. Enjoy!

2.4 A 2.5 3.5 6 brick whose density is 120 / 3 slips off the top of a building under construction and falls
69 . For = 32.0 /2 , determine the change in gravitational potential energy of the brick, in .

2.10 An object whose mass is 300 experiences changes in its kinetic and potential energies owing to the action of a
resultant force . The work done on the object by the resultant force is 140 . There are no other interactions
between the object and its surroundings. If the objects elevation increases by 100 and its final velocity is 200 /,
what is its initial velocity, in /? Let = 32.2 /.

2.18 A system with a mass of 8 , initially moving horizontally with a velocity of 30 /, experiences a constant
horizontal deceleration of 3 /2 due to the action of a resultant force. As a result, the system comes to rest.
Determine the magnitude of the resultant force, in , the amount of energy transfer by work, in , and the total
distance, in , that the system travels.

2.34 Air contained within a piston-cylinder assembly undergoes three processes in series:

Process 1-2: Compression at constant pressure from 1 = 10 /2 , 1 = 4 3 to state 2.

Process 2-3: Constant-volume heating to state 3, where 3 = 50 /2 .

Process 3-1: Expansion to the initial state, during which the pressure-volume relationship is = .

Evaluate the work for each process, in .

2.36 A 0.15 diameter pulley turns a belt rotating the driveshaft of a power plant pump. The torque applied by the
belt on the pulley is 200 , and the power transmitted is 7 . Determine the net force applied by the belt on the
pulley, in , and the rotational speed of the driveshaft, in .

2.37 A 10 battery supplies a constant current of 0.5 to a resistance for 30 . (a) Determine the resistance,
in ohms. (b) For the battery, determine the amount of energy transfer by work, in .

2.43 A fan forces air over a computer circuit board with surface area of 70 2 to avoid overheating. The air
temperature is 300 while the circuit board surface temperature is 340 . Using the given data (Table 2.1), determine
the largest and smallest heat transfer rates, in , that might be encountered for this forced convection.

2.51 A body whose surface area is 0.5 2 , emissivity is 0.8, and temperature is 150 is placed in a large, evacuated
chamber whose walls are at 25. What is the net rate at which radiation is exchanged between the surface and the
chamber walls, in ?

2.55 A mass of 10 undergoes a process during which there is heat transfer from the mass at a rate of 5 per ,
an elevation decrease of 50 , and an increase in velocity from 15 / to 30 /. The specific internal energy
decreases by 5 / and the acceleration of gravity is constant at 9.7 /2 . Determine the work for the process, in .

2.59 An electric motor draws a current of 10 with a voltage of 110 . The output shaft develops a torque of
10.2 and a rotational speed of 1000 . For operation at steady state, determine for the motor, the rate of
heat transfer in