Question 1

What are the immediate undesirable products from the petroleum based lubricating oil
pressure and temperature?
Selected Answer: c. Gums, resins and acids
Answers: a. Carbon residue

b. Soots and ashes

c. Gums, resins and acids

d. Sulfur

Question 2
A system in which there is a flow of mass across its boundaries
Selected Answer: c. open system
Answers: a. isolated system

b. closed system

c. open system

d. steady flow system

Question 3
Question 4
A control volume refers to what?
Selected Answer: c. a fixed region in space
Answers: a. a specified mass

b. an isolated system

c. a fixed region in space

d. a reversible process

Question 5
It is the heat energy transferred to a substance at isobaric process

Selected Answer: d. Enthalpy

Answers: a. Heat flux

b. Internal Energy

c. Entropy

d. Enthalpy

Question 6
For the same heat input and same compression ratio:
Question 7
A mollier chart of thermodynamic properties is shown in which of the following diagrams?
Selected Answer: c. h-S diagram

Answers: a. P-V diagram

b. p-h diagram

c. h-S diagram

d. T-S diagram

Question 8
Which of the following relations is not applicable in the free expansion process?
Selected Answer: b. Heat rejected is zero
Answers: a. Change in temperature is zero

b. Heat rejected is zero

c. Work done is zero

d. Heat supplied is zero

Question 9
According to Prevost theory of heat exchange,
Question 10
Ericsson cycle consists of the following processes:
Selected Answer: a. Two adiabatic and two constant pressures
Answers: a. Two adiabatic and two constant pressures

b. Two isothermal and two constant pressure

c. Two isothermal & two constant volume processes

d. Two isothermal and two constant isentropic

Question 11
Which of the following liquids that has the highest thermal conductivity?
Selected Answer: a. Water

Answers: a. Water

b. Gasoline

c. Alcohol

d. Glycerin

Question 12
Hot spots
Selected Answer: d. Are the hotter spots in engines
Question 13
Which of the following requires the greatest amount of heat per kilogram for a given increase in temperatu
Selected Answer: b. Water

Answers: a. Copper

b. Water

c. Steam

d. Ice

Question 14
An adiabatic process with no work done is:
Selected Answer: a. throttling

Answers: a. throttling

b. isobaric

c. isometric

d. polytropic

Question 15
It refers to the ratio of the internal thermal resistance of a solid to the boundary layer thermal resistance( o
Selected Answer: a. Biot number

Answers: a Biot number

b. enthalpy change

c. Shaft work

d. heat transfer

Question 17
Gas being heated at constant volume is undergoing the process of:
Selected Answer: a. isometric

Answers: a. isometric

b. adiabatic

c. isobaric

d. isentropic

Question 18
Percent excess air is the difference between the air actually supplied and the theoretic
Selected Answer: c. The theoretically air supplied
Answers: a. The sufficient air supplied
Th d fi i i li d
 Selected Answer: a. 20-25%

Answers: a. 20-25%

b. 10-20%

c. 40-45%

d. 10%

Question 20
An Orsat apparatus is used for:
Selected Answer: c. All of the other choices
Answers: a. Gravimetric analysis of the flue gases

b. Volumetric analysis of the flue gases

c. All of the other choices

d. Smoke density analysis of the flue gases

Question 21
When not in use, the self-discharge of an automobile battery in dry weather is generall
Selected Answer: b. 0.5 to 1%
Answers: a 5 to 7.5%
 Selected Answer: c. Einstein’s law
Answers: a. The Heisenburg uncertainty principle

b. The 2nd law of thermodynamics

c. Einstein’s law

d. The Compton’s law

Question 23
What refers to the heat transfer wherein the heat is transferred from one point to another by actual movem
Selected Answer: c. Convection

Answers: a. Conduction

b. Absorption

c. Convection

d. Radiation

Question 24
The attractive force between molecules of the same substance

Selected Answer: b. Adhesion

Answers: a. Cohesion
 Answers: a. Hexane

b. Methyl alcohol

c. Phosphorous

d. Butyl acetate

Question 26
According to Pettlier Thompson effect:
Selected c.
Answer: When two dissimilar metals are heated at one end and cooled at other, emf
proportional to difference of temperatures at two ends
Answers: a. Work can’t be converted into heat
b.
It is impossible to construct a heat engine that operates in a cycle and recei
a high temperature body and does an equal amount of work
c.
When two dissimilar metals are heated at one end and cooled at other, emf
proportional to difference of temperatures at two ends
d.
It is impossible to construct a device that operates in a cycle and produces n
of heat form a cooler body to a hotter body.

Question 27
 d. zeroth law of thermodynamics

Question 28
Which of the following property of liquid extend resistance to angular or shear deformation:
Selected Answer: d. Viscosity

Answers: a. Specific weight

b. Density

c. Specific gravity

d. Viscosity

Question 29
Theoretically air needed for the combustion of one kg of fuel is:
Selected Answer: d. 14.5 kg
Answers: a. 16.7 kg

b. 27.4 kg

c. 100kg

d. 14.5 kg
Question 31
Which of the following is the most efficient thermodynamic cycle?
Selected Answer: a. Otto

Answers: a. Otto

b. Carnot

c. Diesel

d. Brayton

Question 32
Why are metals good conductors of heat?
Selected Answer: a. Because they contain free electrons

Answers: a. Because they contain free electrons

b. Because their atoms are relatively far apart

c. Because they have reflecting surfaces

d. Because their atoms collide infrequently

Question 33
For pipe flow in the laminar flow region, how is the friction factor related to the Reynolds number?
Question 34
One watt is:
Selected Answer: a. 1Nm/s

Answers: a. 1Nm/s

b. 1Nm/ min

c. 1kNm/s

d. 1Nm/ hr

Question 35
An instrument commonly used in most research and engineering laboratories because it is small and fast a
Selected Answer: c. Thermocouple

Answers: a. Gas thermometer

b. Liquid-in-glass thermometer

c. Thermocouple

d. Mercury thermometer

Question 36
The elongation and compression of a helical spring is an example of
Selected Answer: d. reversible process
 In Stirling engine, the heat is added during
Selected Answer: d. Isothermal process
Answers: a. Isobaric process

b. Isentropic process

c. Isometric process

d. Isothermal process

Question 38
The king pin inclination is generally:
Selected Answer: b. Between 2 and 5
Answers: a. Between 1 and 2

b. Between 2 and 5

c. More than 9

d. Less than 0.5

Question 39
When a substance in gaseous state is below the critical temperature, it is called
Selected Answer: c. vapor
 The firing order in case of four cylinder in engines is generally
Selected Answer: a. Either 1-3-4-2 or 1-4-3-2
Answers: a. Either 1-3-4-2 or 1-4-3-2

b. 1-3-4-2

c. 1-2-4-3

d. 1-4-3-2

Question 41
Which of the following transfer of heat is involved in the changing of boiling water( at 100 celsius) to vapor
Selected Answer: b. convection

Answers: a. evaporation

b. convection

c. conduction

d. radiation

Question 42
A Carnot cycle is:
Selected Answer: b. Is bounded by two isotherms and two adiabatics on a p – V graph

Answers: a Consist of two isothermal and two constant volume processes

b.entropy of a mixture is greater than that of its components under t

c. net entropy change in any closed cycle is zero

d. an irreversible process increases entropy of the universe

Question 44
What do bodies at a temperature above absolute zero emit?
Selected Answer: b. Thermal radiation

Answers: a. Heat of convection

b. Thermal radiation

c. Heat of compression

d. Energy

Question 45
Is the condition of pressure and temperature at which a liquid and its vapor are indistin
Selected Answer: b. Critical point
Answers: a. relative humidity
C iti l i t
 c. Pitot tube
Answers: a. Kampometer

b. Flowmeter

c. Pitot tube

d. Katharometer

Question 47
Stagnation enthalpy represents the enthalpy of a fluid when it is brought to rest:
Selected Answer: a. Adiabatically

Answers: a. Adiabatically

b. Isometrically

c. Isothermally

d. Disobarically

Question 48
Is the pressure a fluid exerts on immerse object or container walls
Selected Answer: a. hydrostatic pressure

Answers: a. hydrostatic pressure

b atmospheric pressure
 d. increases

Answers: a. decreases

b. remain constant

c. is zero

d. increases

Question 50
Heat exchange process where in the product of pressure and volume remains constan

Selected Answer: c. Hyperbolic process

b. Heat exchange process

c. Hyperbolic process

d. Isentropic process

Question 51
Which of the following is the equivalent heat transferred of a gas undergoing isometric process?
Selected Answer: d. change in internal energy

Answers: a work nonflow

b. Absolute Fahrenheit

c. Degrees Rankine

d. Absolute Celsius

Question 53
Is the condition of pressure and temperature at which a liquid and its vapor are indistinguishable.
Selected Answer: d. critical point

Answers: a. none of the other choices

b. triple point

c. saturation point

d. critical point

Question 54
If a substance temperature is less than its saturation temperature , the substance is:
Selected Answer: d. subcooled liquid

Answers: a. saturated vapor

b. superheated vapor
 Answers: a. an isolated system

b. reversible process only

c. fixed region in space

d. closed system

Question 56
The combination of conditions that best describes a thermodynamic process is given by which of the follow
I. Has successive states through which the system passes
II. When reversed leaves no change in the system
III. When reversed leaves no change in the system or the surroundings
IV. States are passes through so quickly that the surroundings do not change
Selected Answer: d. I &IV

Answers: a. I & II

b. I only

c. I & III

d. I &IV

Question 57
When H20 in the products of combustion is in liquid form the heating value is known a
Selected Answer: c. Higher heating value
Answers: a. Low and medium heating value
 Selected Answer: a. Dalton’s law

Answers: a. Dalton’s law

b. gravimetric fractions

c. mole fractions

d. volumetric fractions

Question 59
The smallest subdivision of an element that can take place in a chemical reaction is a/
Selected Answer: a. Atom

Answers: a. Atom

b. Proton

c. Molecule

d. Electron

Question 60
The solid – liquid equilibrium of Silver is at what temperature?
Selected Answer: d. 960.8°C

Answers: a. 1063°C