Burgos, Christian Breth M.

MECC3 P1C1 Assignment 1 Module 1

Instruction: CHANGE the highlighted variable to a value you want to use. Each problem must be
presented in the following order:
1. Problem – with the chosen value indicated in the problem.
2. Complete Solutions – with the formula, substitutions and conversions if there are any.
3. Final Answer – must be in the appropriate unit if not specified.

Due: Feb 21, 2022 at 11:30 am

1. The fuel tank of a car holds 10 liters of gasoline. Assuming that the gasoline has a specific gravity of 0.75, determine the weight
of the gasoline in the tank, in kg.

2. The suction pressure of a pump reads x mm Hg vacuum. What is the absolute pressure in KPa?

3. x g of water are mixed with y g of alcohol ( = 790 kg/m3). What is the specific volume of the resulting mixtures, assuming the
fluids mixed completely?

4. Water enters the heater at x C and leaves at y C. What is the temperature change in F?

5. A cylindrical drum ( x ft diameter, y ft height) is filled with a fluid whose density is z lb/ft3. Determine total mass in pounds .

6. Five masses in a region where g = 30.5 fps2 are as follows: m1 is x gm of mass; m2 weighs y gmf; m3 weighs z poundals; m4
weighs 3 lbf; m5 is 0.1 slug of mass. What is the total mass in slugs?

7. Given the barometric pressure of x psia, make these conversions y in Hg vac to KPaa.

8. A household oil tank can old x gallons of oil. If oil has a specific weight of y N/m3, how many pounds of oil will there be in a full
tank?

9. The mass of a fluid system is x slug; its density is y lb/ft3 and g = 31.90 fps2. Find the specific weight.

10. If the atmospheric pressure is x mm Hg, what will be the height of water in a water barometer?

11. The work and heat per degree change of temperature for a system executing a nonflow process are given by dW/dt = 80 W.s / C
and dQ/dt = 15 cal / C, respectively. Determine the change of internal energy for the system as its temperature increases from x
C to y C.

12. A closed system executes a series of processes for which two of the three quantities are known. Find the value of the unknown if
W = -x ft.lb and Q = -y Btu.

13. Steam flows steadily through an adiabatic turbine. The inlet conditions of the steam are 12.5 KPa, x C and 80 m/s and the exit
conditions are 10 KPa, y % quality and z m/s. For a mass flow rate of 25 kg/s, find the change in kinetic energy.

14. Liquid water enters a boiler at a temperature of 60 C, a pressure of 5 MPa and enthalpy of x KJ/kg and leaves as a steam at a
temperature of 400 C, a pressure of 5.5 MPa and enthalpy of y KJ/kg. Determine the heat transferred if the water mass flow rate
is z kg/s.

15. The enthalpy of air is increased by x kJ/kg in a compressor. The rate of air flow is y kg/min. The power input is z KW.
Determine the heat loss from the compressor in KW?

16. The x kg hammer of a pile driver is lifted y meters above a piling head. If the hammer is released, what will be its velocity at the
instant it strikes the piling?

17. Steam enters a turbine stage with an enthalpy of x kJ/kg at y m/sec and leaves the same stage with an enthalpy of z kJ/kg and
a
velocity of 124 m/sec. Calculate the work done by steam.

18. The combined mass of car and passengers traveling at x km/hr is y kg. Find the kinetic energy of this combined mass.

19. An air compressor receives x kg per min of air at P1 = y kPaa and v1 = 0.026 m3/ kg and is discharged at P2 = 689.5 kPaa and
v2 = 0.0051 m3/kg. The change of internal energy of the air is 4647 J/kg. The cooling water circulated around the cylinder
carries away z J/kg of heat. Compute the work.
20. A mass of x kg is y m above a given datum where local g = 9.75 m/sec2 . Find the potential energy of the mass with respect to
the datum.

21. One pound of an ideal gas undergoes an isentropic process from x psig and a volume of 0.6 cu. ft. to a final volume of y cu.
ft. If cp=0.124 Btu/lb ºR and cv=0.093 Btu/lb ºR, determine the final temperature.

22. Consider x lb of air at y ºF that are expanded by a reversible polytropic process with n=1.25 until the pressure is halved.
Compute the change of entropy.

23. Air flows steadily through an engine at constant temperature, x C. Find the work if the exit pressure is one third the inlet
pressure and the inlet pressure is y KPa.

24. The gain in entropy during an isothermal non-flow process of x lb of air at y F is 0.462 Btu/R. What is the work?

25. For a certain ideal gas, R=25.8 ft.lb/lb.R and k=1.09. What mass of this gas would occupy a volume of x ft3 at y psia and z F?

26. A gas initially at P1=827.143 Kpaa and V1= x m3 changes state to a point where P2= y Kpaa and V2=0.663 m3 during which
the internal energy decreases z kJ; cp=0.24 kcal/kg.K. Determine the specific heat at constant volume.

27. A reservoir contains x cu.m of carbon monoxide at 6895 Kpaa and 23.6 °C. An evacuated tank is filled from the reservoir to a
pressure of y Kpaa and a temperature of 12.4 °C , while the pressure in the reservoir decreases to 6205 Kpaa and the
temperature to z °C . What is the volume of the tank?

28. A certain gas with cp=0.529 Btu/lb°R and R=96.2 ft-lb/lbR, expands from x ft3 and 80 °F to 15 ft3 while the pressure remains
constant at y psia. For an internally reversible nonflow process, what is the work.

29. Hydrogen at x F and 110 psia expands isothermally to y psia. If V1= z ft3, find Q.

30. Consider x lb/sec of air that are compressed from y psia, 800 F to z psia in an isentropic manner. Find the final temperature.

31. An engine operating in air standard Otto cycle has a compression ratio of x. The pressure, temperature and volume at the
beginning of the isentropic compression process are 100 KPa, 27 C and y cm3, respectively. If the temperature at the end of
isentropic expansion is z C, determine the thermal efficiency.

32. Consider an ideal Brayton cycle with a maximum and minimum temperatures of x K and y K. The pressure ratio of the cycle is
z, determine the backwork ratio.

33. An engine working on ideal Diesel cycle with pressure of 100 KPa and temperature of x C at the beginning of compression
process. The peak temperature of the cycle is not to exceed y K and a compression ratio of z. Determine the cycle thermal
efficiency.

34. An ideal Carnot engine rejects x Btu/min of heat at y R. The cycle produces z hp of power. Determine the temperature at heat
addition.

35. Air is used as the working fluid for an ideal Otto cycle with 100 KPa and x C at the beginning of compression. The pressure at
the end of adiabatic compression is y KPa and the peak temperature of the cycle is 1577 C. Using constant specific het at room
temperature, determine the heat supplied.

36. A three-process power cycle using x kg/s of air as the working substance has the following reversible processes: process 1-2: V
= C; process 2-3: S = C; process 3-1: P = C. If P1 = 100 KPa, T1 = y K and P2 = z KPa, determine the network in KW.

37. An air-standard power cycle works on the following processes: isothermal compression, constant volume and constant pressure.
If the pressure limits of the cycle are x psi and y psi and the volume at the beginning of isothermal compression is z ft3,
determine the net work output in BTU.

38. A Carnot cycle utilizes air as the working substance. x Btu is added in the cycle at an isentropic compression ratio of y. The
temperature at heat rejection process is z R. Determine the cycle thermal efficiency.

39. The pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression of an ideal Diesel cycle is 100 KPa and x C. The maximum
pressure of the cycle is y KPa and the heat added in the cycle is z KJ/kg. Determine the temperature at the end of constant-
pressure heat addition.
40. A simple ideal Brayton cycle has a temperature of x K at the inlet of the compressor and 1200 K at the inlet of the turbine. The
cycle produces a net power of y MW with a pressure ratio of z. Determine the mass flow rate of air in kg/s.