1. A room is filled with saturated steam at 100°C. Now c. 53.

4°C
a 5-kg bowling ball at 25°C is brought to the room. d. 52.5°C
Heat is transferred to the ball from the steam, and e. 63.4°C
the temperature of the ball rises to 100°C while 7. A 2-kW baseboard electric resistance heater in a
some steam condenses on the ball as it loses heat vacant room is turned on and kept on for 15 min.
(but it still remains at 100°C). The specific heat of The mass of the air in the room is 75 kg, and the
the ball can be taken to be 1.8 kJ/kg · C. The mass of room is tightly sealed so that no air can leak in or
steam that condensed during this process is out. The temperature rise of air at the end of 15 min
a. 80 g is
b. 128 g a. 8.5°C
c. 299 g b. 12.4°C
d. 351 g c. 24.0°C
e. 405 g d. 33.4°C
2. A frictionless piston–cylinder devices and a rigid e. 54.8°C
tank contain 2 kmol of an ideal gas at the same 8. A room contains 60 kg of air at 100 kPa and 15°C.
temperature, pressure, and volume. Now heat is The room has a 250-W refrigerator (the refrigerator
transferred, and the temperature of both systems is consumes 250 W of electricity when running), a 120-
raised by 10°C. The amount of extra heat that must W TV, a 1kW electric resistance heater, and a 50-W
be supplied to the gas in the cylinder that is fan. During a cold winter day, it is observed that the
maintained at constant pressure is refrigerator, the TV, the fan, and the electric
a. 0 kJ resistance heater are running continuously but the
b. 42 kJ air temperature in the room remains constant. The
c. 83 kJ rate of heat loss from the room that day is
d. 102 kJ a. 3312 kJ/h
e. 166 kJ b. 4752 kJ/h
3. The specific heat of a material is given in a strange c. 5112 kJ/h
unit to be c=3.60 kJ/kg. °F. The specific heat of this d. 2952 kJ/h
material in the SI units of kJ/kg. °C is e. 4680 kJ/h
a. 2.00 kJ/kg. °C 9. A piston–cylinder device contains 5 kg of air at 400
b. 3.20 kJ/kg. °C kPa and 30°C. During a quasi-equilibrium isothermal
c. 3.60 kJ/kg. °C expansion process, 15 kJ of boundary work is done
d. 4.80 kJ/kg. °C by the system, and 3 kJ of paddle-wheel work is
e. 2.00 kJ/kg. °C done on the system. The heat transfer during this
4. A 3-m rigid tank contains nitrogen gas at 500 kPa process is
and 300 K. Now heat is transferred to the nitrogen a. 12 kJ
in the tank and the pressure of nitrogen rises to 800 b. 18 kJ
kPa. The work done during this process is c. 2.4 kJ
a. 500 kJ d. 3.5 kJ
b. 1500 kJ e. 60 kJ
c. 0 kJ 10. A container equipped with a resistance heater and a
d. 900 kJ mixer is initially filled with 3.6 kg of saturated water
e. 2400 kJ vapor at 120°C. Now the heater and the mixer are
5. A 0.8-m rigid tank contains nitrogen gas at 600 kPa turned on; the steam is compressed, and there is
and 300 K. Now the gas is compressed isothermally heat loss to the surrounding air. At the end of the
to a volume of 0.1 m. The work done on the gas process, the temperature and pressure of steam in
during this compression process is the container are measured to be 300°C and 0.5
a. 746 kJ MPa. The net energy transfer to the steam during
b. 0 kJ this process is
c. 420 kJ a. 274 kJ
d. 998 kJ b. 914 kJ
e. 1890 kJ c. 1213 kJ
6. A well-sealed room contains 60 kg of air at 200 kPa d. 988 kJ
and 25°C. Now solar energy enters the room at an e. 1291 kJ
average rate of 0.8 kJ/s while a 120-W fan is turned 11. A 6-pack canned drink is to be cooled from 25°C to
on to circulate the air in the room. If heat transfer 3°C. The mass of each canned drink is 0.355 kg. The
through the walls is negligible, the air temperature drinks can be treated as water, and the energy
in the room in 30 min will be stored in the aluminum can itself is negligible. The
a. 25.6°C amount of heat transfer from the 6 canned drinks is
b. 49.8°C a. 33 kJ
 b. 37 kJ b. 92.1 kJ/kg
c. 47 kJ c. 99.5 kJ/kg
d. 196 kJ d. 108.9 kJ/kg
e. 223 kJ e. 105.2 kJ/kg
12. A glass of water with a mass of 0.45 kg at 20°C is to 18. The specific heat at constant volume for an ideal gas
be cooled to 0°C by dropping ice cubes at 0°C into it. is given by cv=0.7+ (2.7x10-4) T (kJ/kg.K) where T is in
The latent heat of fusion of ice is 334 kJ/kg, and the kelvin. The change in the internal energy for this
specific heat of water is 4.18 kJ/kg · °C. The amount ideal gas undergoing a process in which the
of ice that needs to be added is temperature changes from 27 to 127°C is most
a. 56 g nearly
b. 113 g a. 70 kJ/kg
c. 124 g b. 72.1 kJ/kg
d. 224 g c. 79.5 kJ/kg
e. 450 g d. 82.1 kJ/kg
13. A 2-kW electric resistance heater submerged in 5-kg e. 84.0 kJ/kg
water is turned on and kept on for 10 min. During 19. A piston–cylinder device contains an ideal gas. The
the process, 300 kJ of heat is lost from the water. gas undergoes two successive cooling processes by
The temperature rise of water is rejecting heat to the surroundings. First the gas is
a. 0.4°C cooled at constant pressure until T2=3/4T1. Then the
b. 43.1°C piston is held stationary while the gas is further
c. 57.4°C cooled to T3=1/2T1, where all temperatures are in K.
d. 71.8°C The ratio of the final volume to the initial volume of
e. 180.0°C the gas is
14. 3 kg of liquid water initially at 12°C is to be heated a. 0.25
at 95°C in a teapot equipped with a 1200-W electric b. 0.50
heating element inside. The specific heat of water c. 0.67
can be taken to be 4.18 kJ/kg · °C, and the heat loss d. 0.75
from the water during heating can be neglected. e. 1.0
The time it takes to heat water to the desired 20. Saturated steam vapor is contained in a piston
temperature is cylinder device. While heat is added to the steam,
a. 4.8 min the piston is held stationary, and the pressure and
b. 14.5 min temperature become 1.2 MPa and 700°C,
c. 6.7 min respectively. Additional heat is added to the steam
d. 9.0 min until the temperature rises to 1200°C, and the
e. 18.6 min piston moves to maintain a constant pressure. The
15. An ordinary egg with a mass of 0.1 kg and a specific initial pressure of the steam is most nearly
heat of 3.32 kJ/kg · °C is dropped into boiling water a. 250 kPa
at 95°C. If the initial temperature of the egg is 5°C, b. 500 kPa
the maximum amount of heat transfer to the egg is c. 750 kPa
a. 12 kJ d. 1000 kPa
b. 30 kJ e. 1250 kPa
c. 24 kJ
d. 18 kJ
e. Infinity
16. An apple with an average mass of 0.18 kg and
average specific heat of 3.65 kJ/kg °C is cooled from
22°C to 5°C. The amount of heat transferred from
the apple is
a. 0.85 kJ
b. 62.1 kJ
c. 17.7 kJ
d. 11.2 kJ
e. 7.1 kJ
17. The specific heat at constant pressure for an ideal
gas is given by cp=0.9+ (2.7x10-4) T (kJ/kg.K) where T
is in kelvin. The change in the enthalpy for this ideal
gas undergoing a process in which the temperature
changes from 27 to 127°C is most nearly.
a. 90 kJ/kg