Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sta.

Mesa, Manila
College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Department

Name: _________________________________ _______ Score: ________________Date: ________________

Course/Yr. &Sec.: ________________________ _______ Instructor: ____Engr. Tom Gersin__________

THERMODYNAMICS
TAKE HOME QUIZ

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Circle the BEST answer. No erasures allowed. (15)

1. The study of _________ is concerned with ways energy is stored within a body and how energy
transformations, which involve heat and work, may take place.
a. Thermodynamics
b. Physics
c. Microscopic
d. Macroscopic
2. It is the study large number of particles (molecules) that make up the substance in question
a. Thermodynamics
b. Physics
c. Microscopic
d. Macroscopic
3. It is also known as Statistical thermodynamics
a. Thermodynamics
b. Physics
c. Microscopic
d. Macroscopic
4. Is the term given to the collection of matter under consideration enclosed within a boundary
a. System
b. Boundary
c. Surrounding
d. Collection
5. It is real or imaginary layer that separates the system from its surroundings
a. System
b. Boundary
c. Surrounding
d. Collection
6. It is a physical space outside the system boundary
a. System
b. Boundary
c. Surrounding
d. Collection
7. It is a type of system where no transfer of matter acrosses the boundary.
a. Open system
b. Closed system
c. Isolated system
 d. None of the above
8. It is a type of system where there is a flow of matter through the boundary
a. Open system
b. Closed system
c. Isolated system
d. None of the above
9. It is a type of system where no mass or energy may cross the system boundary and its not influenced by the
surrounding.
a. Open system
b. Closed system
c. Isolated system
d. None of the above
10. It is sum of all forms of energy (i.e., thermal, mechanical, kinetic, potential, electrical, magnetic, chemical, and
nuclear) that can exist in a system
a. Total Energy
b. Boundary
c. Surrounding
d. Collection
11. It is a type of property that vary directly with the size of the system.
a. Implicit property
b. Extensive property
c. Intensive Property
d. Definite property
12. It is a type of property that are independent of the size of the system
a. Implicit property
b. Extensive property
c. Intensive Property
d. Definite property
13. A process (or a series of connected processes) with identical end states
a. Method
b. Cycle
c. Motion
d. Routine
14. Sum Energy Entering = Sum Energy leaving
a. First law of thermodynamics
b. Second Law of Thermodynamics
c. Third Law of Thermodynamics
d. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
15. Thermo in Thermodynamics means
a. Flame
b. Heat
c. Cold
d. Motion
ENUMERATION: Enumerate the correct answers. (12)

1. Give 3 examples of extensive Property

2. Give 5 examples of intensive property
3. State the 3 Laws of thermodynamics
4. What is zeroth law of thermodyamics?

ANSWERS:

1. volume, mass, total energy

2. temperature, pressure, color, specific volume, density
3. The first law, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, energy can be changed from one form to another,
but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant,
merely changing from one form to another. The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation) states that energy
is always conserved. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of any isolated system always increases. The Second
Law of Thermodynamics states that "in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the
potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state." This is also commonly referred to
as entropy. A watch spring-driven watch will run until the potential energy in the spring is converted, and not
again until energy is reapplied to the spring to rewind it. A car that has run out of gas will not run again until you
walk 10 miles to a gas station and refuel the car. Once the potential energy locked in carbohydrates is converted
into kinetic energy (energy in use or motion), the organism will get no more until energy is input again. In the
process of energy transfer, some energy will dissipate as heat. Entropy is a measure of disorder: cells are NOT
disordered and so have low entropy. The flow of energy maintains order and life. Entropy wins when organisms
cease to take in energy and die.

The third law of thermodynamics is essentially a statement about the ability to create an absolute temperature s
cale, for which absolute zero is the point at which the internal energy of a solid is precisely 0.

Various sources show the following three potential formulations of the third law of thermodynamics:

a) It is impossible to reduce any system to absolute zero in a finite series of operations.

b) The entropy of a perfect crystal of an element in its most stable form tends to zero as the temperature
approaches absolute zero.
c) As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy of a system approaches a constant

4. The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics states that if two bodies are each in thermal equilibrium with some third
body, then they are also in equilibrium with each other. Thermal equilibrium means that when two bodies are
brought into contact with each other and separated by a barrier that is permeable to heat, there will be no
transfer of heat from one to the other.
This says in essence that the three bodies are all the same temperature. James Clerk Maxwell put this perhaps
more simply when he said, “All heat is of the same kind.” What is most important is that the Zeroth Law
establishes that temperature is a fundamental and measurable property of matter.