1.

) In an experiment to determine the specific heat of copper,

a piece of copper weighing 50g is first heated to 100°C in
steam. It is then immersed into water at 27°C. The water in
the calorimeter weighs 100g and the inner aluminum cap
weighs 50g. If the final temperature is 30°C, what is the
specific of copper, specific heat of aluminum is 0.22 Cal/g-
deg°C.
2.) At STP the density of chlorine is 3.22 kg/m³. What is the
weigh of this gas is contained in a flask of 100 cubic
centimeters at 24°C and 100kPa?
3.) How much work is necessary to compress air in an
insulated cylinder from 0.20 m³ to 0.01 m³? Use T1 = 20°C
and P1 = 100 kPa
4.) A heat engine is operated between temperature limits
1370°C and 260°C. Engine is supplied with 14,142 kJ/kwh.
Find the Carnot cycle efficiency in percent.
5.) A closed vessel contains air at a pressure of 160 kN/m²
gauge and temperature of 30°C. The air is heated at
constant volume to 60°C with the atmospheric pressure
of 759 mm hg. What is the final gauge pressure?
6.) What is the temperature in °C of 2 liters of water at 30°C
after 500 calories of heat have been added?
7.) A volume of 450 cm³ of ai is measured at a pressure of
740 mm Hg absolute and a temperature of 20°C. What is
the volume in cm³ at 760 mm Hg absolute and 0°C?
8.) Assuming compression is according to the law PV=
constant. Calculate the initial volume of gas at a pressure
of 2 bar which will occupy a volume of 6m³ when it is
compressed to a pressure of 42 bar.
9.) A steam condenser receives 10 kg per second of steam
with an enthalpy of 2,570 kJ/kg. Steam condenses into
liquid and leaves with an enthalpy of 160 kJ/kg. Cooling
water passes through the condenser with temperature
increases from 13°C to 24°C. Calculate the cooling water
flow rate in kg/s.
10.) Ammonia weighing 22 kg is confined inside a cylinder
equipped with a piston has an initial pressure of 413 kPa
at 38°C. If 2900 kJ of heat is added to the ammonia intil
its pressure and temperature are 413 kPa and 100°C,
respectively. What is the amount of work done by the
fluid in kJ ? (Note: Molecular Weight of NH3 = 17)
11.) The maximum thermal efficiency possible for a power
cycle operating between 1200°F and 225°F is:
12.) Compute the gas constant of a mixture of 10 kg of
oxygen and 20 kg of nitrogen per kg of the mixture?
13.) A tire contains 100 in³ of air of 80°F, and a pressure of 1
atmosphere. It is connected to a pump of capacity 10³. If
the pump becomes 17.64 psia after one stroke, at what
pressure (psia) must the tire valve open considering that
the pump and tire temperature remains constant?
14.) A 30 kg iron was put in a container with water. The water
is at 10°C and the iron has an initial temperature of 493
K, until the iron was in thermal equilibrium with the
water. Find the change in entropy.
15.) Twenty grams of oxygen gas (O2) are compressed at a
constant temperature of 30°C to 5% its original volume.
Find the work done on the system?
16.) A device produce 37.5 joules per cycle. There is one
power stroke per cycle. Calculate the power output if the
device is run at 45 rpm?
17.) Five moles of water vapor at 100°C and 1 atmospheric
pressure are compressed isobarically to form liquid at
100°C. The process is reversible and the ideal gas laws
apply. Compute the work, in joules, done on the system.
Note: R = 0.0821 L-atm/mol. °R
18.) A piston and cylinder arrangement contains saturated
water vapor at 110°C. The vapor is compressed in a
reversible, adiabatic process until the pressure is 1.6
Mpa. What is the work done by the system per kilogram
of water?
19.) When 0.5 g of a liquid is completely evaporated and
collected in a liter manometer, the pressure is 0.25 atm
and the temperature is 27°C. Assume ideal gas behavior,
find the molecular weight if the gas constant is R =
0.0821 atm/mol.K.
20.) For an ideal gas, what is the specific molar entropy
change during an isothermal process in which the
pressure change from 200kPa to 150 kPa?
21.) A gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as
the top boundary. The gas is heated and expands from a
volume of 0.04 m³ to 0.10 m³ at a constant pressure of
200kPa. Find the work done on the system.
22.) In the process where the product of pressure and volume
Is constant, a gas compression is carried out from an
initial pressure of 200 kPa to a final pressure of 800 kPa.
Considering that the initial specific volume is 0.10 m³/kg,
determine the work done per kilogram of gas.