Thermodynamics MCQ

1. What element exists in diatomic form at 25° C and 1 atm?

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Correct Answer: Nitrogen

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2. What does the word "spring" mean in the context of engineering?

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Correct Answer: Work

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3. What is done to change the length of a spring?

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Correct Answer: Spring work

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4. How many times do you need to increase the size of a spray pond due to air loss?

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Correct Answer: 25 to 50 times

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5. A spray pond requires 25 to 50 times the area of what other kind of pond?

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Correct Answer: Cooling tower

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6. What does a spray pond require that a cooling tower does not?

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Correct Answer: 25 to 50 times the area

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7. What is the product of the local acceleration of gravity and the substance density?

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Correct Answer: Weight

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8. What is the definition of density?

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Correct Answer: Volume per unit mass

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9. What is the reciprocal of density?

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Correct Answer: Volume

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10. What is the property that per unit mass is extensive properties?

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Correct Answer: Specific properties

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11. What are the known as for solids and liquids?

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Correct Answer: Or incompressible substances

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12. What is the ratio Cp/Cv referred to as?

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Correct Answer: Heat ratio

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13. What is related to the changes in internal energy?

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Correct Answer: Cv

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14. What is the measurement of a substance's change in enthalpy per unit change in temperature when it's at constant pressure?

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Correct Answer: Cp

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15. What is the definition of heat?

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Correct Answer: The energy required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by one degree

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16. What is defined as the energy required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by one degree?

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Correct Answer: Heat

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17. What is the standard temperature for water?

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Correct Answer: 4°C

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18. What is the term used to describe the kind of engines that have a spark plug to ignite the air fuel mixture?

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Correct Answer: Spark-ignition

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19. What are reciprocating engines?

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Correct Answer: Spark-ignition (SI) engines

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20. Sonic flow occurs when a flow has a what?

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Correct Answer: M =1

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21. What happens to the flow when the Mach number is 1?

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Correct Answer: Sonic flow

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22. What is the maximum amount of solid that can be dissolved in a liquid at a specified temperature?

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Correct Answer: Solubility

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23. What does the term "solid phase" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Molecules arranged in a three-dimensional pattern

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24. In a solid, molecules are said to be arranged in what?

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Correct Answer: A three-dimensional pattern

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25. What is mounted on the frame of a Sling psychrometer?

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Correct Answer: Both a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb temperature

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26. What device has both a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb temperature mounted on it so that when it is swung through the air both the wet-and dry-bulb temperatures can be read?

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Correct Answer: Sling psychrometer

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27. What kind of reactions are simultaneous reactions?

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Correct Answer: Chemical

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28. What are chemical reactions that involve two or more reactions occurring at the same time called?

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Correct Answer: Simultaneous reactions

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29. What is the process of lowering the temperature of atmospheric air when no moisture is removed?

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Correct Answer: Cooling

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30. What does the process of cooling without removing moisture involve?

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Correct Answer: Is the process of lowering the temperature of atmospheric air

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31. What is a system in which there is the absence of electrical, magnetic, gravitational, motion, and surface tension effects?

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Correct Answer: Compressible system

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32. How many times per second does shaft work occur?

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Correct Answer: Revolutions

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33. What is the portion of the energy of a system associated with the kinetic energies of the molecules?

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Correct Answer: Sensible energy

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34. Who discovered the Seebeck effect?

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Correct Answer: Thomas Seebeck

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35. What is the second law efficiency of various steady-flow devices determined from?

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Correct Answer: HII = (exergy recovered)/(exergy supplied)

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36. What is an energy interaction not accompanied by?

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Correct Answer: Entropy transfer

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37. What is an energy interaction that is not accompanied by entropy transfer?

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Correct Answer: Work

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38. In what way are expressed dimensions expressed?

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Correct Answer: In terms of the primary dimensions

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39. What does the term "derived dimensions" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Secondary dimensions

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40. It is called a what because of its similarity to the previous technology?

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Correct Answer: Scramjet

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41. At what speed does air flow through a Scramjet engine?

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Correct Answer: Supersonic

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42. What is the temperature at which a pure substance changes phase?

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Correct Answer: Tsat

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43. What is the term for a substance changing phase at a given temperature?

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Correct Answer: Saturation pressure

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44. What is the name of the pressure at which a substance changes phase?

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Correct Answer: Psat

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45. What is the line that meets the saturated liquid line at the critical point?

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Correct Answer: Saturated vapour line

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46. At what temperature is saturated vapour?

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Correct Answer: About to condense

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47. A vapour that is about to condense is called what?

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Correct Answer: Saturated vapour

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48. To what state is saturated vapour usually to be compared?

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Correct Answer: Condense

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49. Where does the saturated liquid-vapour mixture region, or the wet region, occur?

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Correct Answer: Under the dome

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50. What kind of mixture is saturated liquid-vapour mixture?

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Correct Answer: Coexist in equilibrium

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51. What is a mixture of the liquid and vapour phases that coexist in equilibrium?

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Correct Answer: Saturated liquid-vapour mixture

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52. What is the liquid line that forms a dome at the critical point?

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Correct Answer: Saturated liquid line

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53. What kind of liquid is about to vaporize?

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Correct Answer: Saturated

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54. What is a liquid that is about to vaporize?

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Correct Answer: Saturated liquid

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55. What condition is air that can't hold any more water?

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Correct Answer: Saturated

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56. What will occur when saturated air is witheld?

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Correct Answer: Condense

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57. What can't be added to saturated air?

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Correct Answer: Moisture

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58. What are the high-pressure combustion gases then expanded in a nozzle?

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Correct Answer: Rocket

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59. What do rocket exhausts give off at very high velocities?

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Correct Answer: Thrust

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60. What is Wrev defined as?

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Correct Answer: The maximum amount of useful work that can be produced

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61. What is defined as the maximum amount of useful work that can be produced?

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Correct Answer: Reversible work

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62. What is the definition of Reversible steady-flow work?

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Correct Answer: The negative of the integral of the specific volume-pressure product

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63. What is defined as the negative of the integral of the specific volume-pressure product?

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Correct Answer: Reversible steady-flow work

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64. What is a process that can be reversed without leaving any trace on the surroundings?

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Correct Answer: Reversible process

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