Thermodynamics MCQ

1. What is commonly used to measure small and moderate pressure differences?

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Correct Answer: The manometer

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2. What are the two types of macroscopic energy?

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Correct Answer: Kinetic and potential

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3. What are two examples of macroscopic forms of energy?

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Correct Answer: Kinetic and potential energies

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4. What is the ratio of the actual velocity of the fluid to the velocity of sound in the same fluid at the same state?

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Correct Answer: Mach number

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5. What is the name of the Austrian physicist?

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Correct Answer: Ernst Mach

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6. What is the term for the heating value when the H2O in the products is in the liquid form?

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Correct Answer: Lower heating value

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7. What is the LHV of water when it is in the vapor form?

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Correct Answer: Heating value

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8. The LHV of products that contain water in the vapor form is which value?

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Correct Answer: Lower

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9. What is the heating value of the fuel when the water in the combustion gases is a vapour?

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Correct Answer: Lower

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10. What is the heating value of the fuel when water is a vapour?

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Correct Answer: Lower heating value

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11. What is the plot of saturation temperature Tsat versus saturation pressure Psat called?

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Correct Answer: Liquid-vapour saturation curve

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12. What do the molecules of a liquid retain their original positions with respect to?

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Correct Answer: One another

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13. What is the by-product of natural gas processing or crude oil refining?

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Correct Answer: Liquefied petroleum gas

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14. What is the main component of LPG?

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Correct Answer: Propane

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15. What is the definition of lighting efficacy?

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Correct Answer: The amount of light output in lumens per W of electricity consumed

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16. What is defined as the amount of light output in lumens per watt of electricity consumed?

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Correct Answer: Lighting efficacy

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17. What does the latent heat of vaporization measure?

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Correct Answer: Energy absorbed during vaporization

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18. What is the amount of energy absorbed during vaporization?

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Correct Answer: Latent heat of vaporization

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19. What is the value of latent heat of fusion?

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Correct Answer: Energy

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20. What is the latent heat of fusion?

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Correct Answer: The amount of energy absorbed during melting

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21. What is the amount of energy absorbed during melting?

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Correct Answer: Latent heat of fusion

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22. What does a latent heat process involve?

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Correct Answer: Phase-change process

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23. What is the amount of energy absorbed or released during a phase change?

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Correct Answer: Latent heat

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24. What is the internal energy associated with the phase of a system?

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Correct Answer: Latent energy

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25. What is the result of engine knock?

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Correct Answer: Audible noise

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26. What is the audible noise in the engine called?

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Correct Answer: Engine knock

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27. What is a system's energy as a result of its motion relative to some reference frame?

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Correct Answer: Kinetic energy KE

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28. What is energy that a system possesses as a result of its motion relative to some reference frame?

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Correct Answer: Kinetic energy

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29. What is a kilopascal?

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Correct Answer: 1000 Pascal

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30. What is the unit for pressure?

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Correct Answer: Kilopascal

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31. Kilopascal is the unit of pressure equal to how many Pascal?

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Correct Answer: 1000

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32. What is the value of the triple point of water?

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Correct Answer: 273.16 K

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33. In what year was the Kelvin unit established?

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Correct Answer: 1954

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34. What is the thermodynamic temperature scale in the SI?

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Correct Answer: Kelvin scale

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35. What year did the degree symbol for Kelvin scale drop?

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Correct Answer: 1967

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36. What can have a thermal efficiency of 100 percent?

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Correct Answer: No heat engine

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37. What can an engine not have an efficiency of?

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Correct Answer: 100 percent

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38. What is the sum of the products of the mole fraction and critical pressure of each component of a gas mixture?

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Correct Answer: Pseudocritical pressure

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39. Who proposed Kay's rule?

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Correct Answer: W. B. Kay

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40. When did W.B. Kay propose his rule?

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Correct Answer: 1936

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41. What measurement is used to measure the change in temperature with pressure during a constant-enthalpy process?

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Correct Answer: JT

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42. What is a measure of the change in temperature with pressure during a constant-enthalpy process?

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Correct Answer: Joule-Thomson coefficient JT

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43. How many units does the unit of energy have?

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Correct Answer: J

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44. What is the unit of energy?

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Correct Answer: Joule

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45. What is the cycle used in aircraft gas turbines?

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Correct Answer: Jet-propulsion cycle

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46. What sort of process maintains a constant temperature?

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Correct Answer: Isothermal process

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47. What is defined as the ratio of the work input to a compressor for the reversible isothermal case and the work input to a compressor for the actual case?

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Correct Answer: Isothermal efficiency of a compressor

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48. What is the relationship between isothermal compressibility and volume changes?

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Correct Answer: Pressure changes

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49. What relates how volume changes when pressure changes when temperature is held constant?

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Correct Answer: Isothermal compressibility

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50. What is a system that is not allowed to cross its boundary?

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Correct Answer: Isolated system

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51. In an isolated system, what is not allowed to cross the boundary?

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Correct Answer: Energy

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52. What term describes a process that maintains the same amount of volume?

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Correct Answer: Isochoric

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53. What does Isobaric process mean?

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Correct Answer: A process during which the pressure P remains constant

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54. Iso is a commonly used term to designate a process that remains constant what?

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Correct Answer: Property

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55. What property remains constant for iso prefix?

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Correct Answer: Process

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56. When does isentropic stagnation state occur?

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Correct Answer: When the stagnation process is reversible

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57. What is the stagnation state when the stagnation process is reversible?

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Correct Answer: Isentropic stagnation state

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58. What kind of process is isentropic?

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Correct Answer: Internally reversible and adiabatic

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59. What is the term for the process that is internally reversible and adiabatic?

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Correct Answer: Isentropic process

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60. What is the ratio of actual work output to the work output that would be achieved if the process between the inlet state and the exit pressure were isentropic?

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Correct Answer: Isentropic efficiency of a turbine

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61. What is the ratio of the actual kinetic energy of the fluid at the nozzle exit to the kinetic energy value at the exit of an isentropic nozzle for the same inlet state and exit pressure?

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Correct Answer: Isentropic efficiency of a nozzle

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62. What is the definition for isentropic efficiency of a compressor?

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Correct Answer: The ratio of the work input required to raise the pressure of a gas to a specified value

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63. What are processes that cannot be reversed?

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Correct Answer: Irreversible processes

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64. What is irreversibility I called?

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Correct Answer: Any difference between the reversible work Wrev and the useful work Wu

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