Activity No. 1 Thermo1
Activity No. 1 Thermo1
Activity No. 1 Thermo1
1 (Thermodynamics 1)
1. What is the pressure 8,000 ft (2000m) below the surface of the ocean? Neglect the compressibility
factor, in SI units.
2. What is the temperature at which water freezes using the Kelvin scale?
A. 373 C. 278
B. 273 D. 406
A. °F C. BTU
B. °K D. °R
B. 724.00 D. 427.30
A. 1 atm C. 14.7
B. 2 mm Hg D. 1/760 atm
A. Fahrenheit C. Celsius
B. Rankine D. Kelvin
7. Given steam pressure of 900 lb/ft² , temperature of 300°F, specific volume of 5.8ft³/lb. If the specific
enthalpy is 9500 ft-lb/lb, what is the internal energy per lb of the system?
A. 4400 C. 3600
B. 3900 D. 4280
8. The barometer reads 29.0 inches (737mm) of mercury. What is the absolute pressure if a vacuum
gage reads 9.5 psi (66 kpa) is SI?
A. 32.02 kpa C. 31.36 kpa
9. A fluid with a vapour pressure of 0.2 Pa and a specific gravity of 12 is used in a barometer. If the fluids
column height is 1 m, what is the atmospheric pressure?
10. What is the atmospheric pressure on a planet if the pressure is 100 kpa and the gage pressure is 10
kpa?
A. 10 kpa C. 80 kpa
11. A column of water 200 cm high will give a presuure equivalent to:
A. 720.60°R C. 670.27°R
B. 851.15°R D. 344.25°R
13. If the temperature inside the furnace is 700°K, what is the corresponding reading in °F?
A. 700.60 C. 860.60
B. 750.60 D. 800.60
14. If the °F scale is twice the °C scale, what will be the corresponding reading in each scale?
15. Water enters the condenser at 25°C and leaves at 40°C. What is the temperature difference in °F?
A. 25 C. 27
B. 26 D. 28
16. Water enters the heater with 28°C and leaves at 75°C. What is the temperature change in °F?
A. 74.80 C. 84.80
B. 38.29 D. 57.36
17. The specific gravity of mercury relative to water is 13.55. What is the specific weight of mercury? The
specific weight of water is 64.4 lb per cubic foot.
18. An iron block weighs 5 N and has a volume of 200 cm³. What is the density of the block?
19. The suction pressure of a pump reads 540 mm Hg vacuum. What is the absolute pressure in Kpa?
A. 40 C. 60
B. 3.3 D. 29.3
20. A boiler installed where thr atmospheric pressure is 755 mm Hg. Has a pressure 12 kg/cm². What is
the absolute pressure in Mpa?
A. 1.350 C. 1.200
B. 1.277 D. 1,700
21. A storage tank contains oil with specific gravity of 0.88 and depth of 20m. What is the hydrostatic
pressure at the bottom of the tank in kg/cm²?
A. 1.76 C. 6.0
B. 2.0 D. 3.0
22. A batch of concrete consisted of 200 lbs fine aggregate, 350 lbs coarse aggregate, 94 lbs cement, 5
gallons water. The specific gravity of the sand and gravel may be taken as 2.65 and that of the cement as
3.10. What was the weight of concrete in place per cubic foot?
A. 172 lb C. 162 lb
B. 236 lb D. 153 lb
23. A batch of concrete consisted of 200 lbs fine aggregate, 350 lbs coarse aggregate, 94 lbs cement, 5
gallons water. The specific gravity of the sand and gravel may be taken as 2.65 and that of the cement as
3.10. How much by weight of cement is required to produce one cubic yard?
A. 765 C. 67
B. 657 D. 567
24. A cylindrical tank 2 m diameter, 3 m high is full of oil. If the specific gravity of oil is 0.9, what is the
mass of oil in the tank?
A. 8482 kg C. 1800 kg
B. 4500 kg D. 7000 kg
25. 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (w=790 kg/m³). What is the specific volume of the
resulting mixtures, assuming the fluids mixed completely?
26. 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (w=790 kg/m³). What is the specific gravity of the
resulting mixtures, assuming the fluids mixed completely?
A. 0.96 C. 0.82
B. 0.63 D. 0.86
27. A spherical tank is full of water that has a total mass of 10,000 kg. If the outside diameter of the tank
is 2722 mm, how thick is the wall of the tank?
A. 50 mm C. 30 mm
B. 25 mm D. 35 mm
28. A cylindrical tank is filled with water at the rate of 5,000 gal/min. The height of water in the tank
after minutes is 20.42 ft. What is the diameter of the tank?
A. 30 ft C. 20ft
B. 25 ft D. 9 m
29. Water is flowing through a 1 foot diameter pipe at the rate of 10 ft/sec. What is the volume flow of
water flowing?
30. A certain fluid is flowing in a 0.5 m x 0.3 m channel at the rate of 3 m/sec and has a specific volume
of 0.0012 m³/kg. Determine the mass of water flowing in kg/sec.
A. 380 kg/sec C. 375 kg/sec
31. One useful equation used is the change of enthalpy of compressible liquid with constant specific
heat is:
Water with enthalpy with csubp = 4.187 KJ/kg-°K and v = 1.00 x 10 to the 3rd power cu.m/kg has the
following states:
32. What is the potential energy of a 500 kg body if it is dropped to a height of 100 m?
A. 490.50 KJ C. 560.50 KJ
B. 765.50 KJ D. 645.48 KJ
33. The flow energy of 124 li/min of a fluid passing a boundary to a system is 2 KJ/sec. What is the
pressure at this point.
34. Steam at 1000 lb/ft² pressure and 300°R has a specific volume of 6.5 ft³/lb and a specific enthalpy of
9800 ft-lb/lb. Find the internal energy per pound mass of steam.
A. 5400 C. 6400
B. 3300 D. 2500