PHYSICS AND AERODYNAMICS EXAMPLE QUESTION

Thermodynamics

1) Define Specific Heat?

A. The ratio of the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of a certain mass of a material
A. Heat that change the state of material without changing its temperature.
B. Heat that raise the temperature of material without changing its physical state.
ANSWER: A

2) Latent Heat mean:

A. Heat that raise the temperature of material without changing its physical state
B. Heat that change the state of material without changing its temperature.
C. It is the temperature at which atoms stop moving, and is unobtainable.
ANSWER: B

3) Sensible Heat mean:

A. Heat that change the state of material without changing its temperature.
B. Heat that raise the temperature of material without changing its physical state
C. It is the temperature at which atoms stop moving, and is unobtainable.
ANSWER: B

4) What is Radiation?
A. Heat transfer by direct contact
B. Heat transfer by electromagnetic wave action
C. Heat transfer inside a gas or a liquid by means of vertical currents inside the fluid.
ANSWER: B

5) The specific heat of a particular material or substance depends on what?

A. the substance
B. the material
C. the environment
ANSWER: C

PRESSURE AND GAS LAW

1) What is atmospheric pressure ?

A. Atmospheric pressure is an ambient pressure.
B. The pressure around us is known as the atmospheric pressure.
C. Atmospheric pressure is a measurement of a force acts on a given area.
ANSWER: C

2) What is the absolute pressure ?

A. The absolute pressure is the sum of the ambient pressure and the atmospheric pressure.
B. The absolute pressure is the sum of the ambient pressure and the gauge pressure.
C. The absolute pressure is the sum of the atmospheric pressure and the gauge pressure.
ANSWER: B

3) Define gauge pressure ?

A. pressure is the sum of the ambient pressure and the atmospheric pressure
B. pressure that is measured or read directly from a gauge
C. he pressure around us is known as the atmospheric pressure.
ANSWER: B

4) The standard atmospheric pressure is agreed to be:

A. 101.225 kPa
B. 1.01225 bar
C. 101,325 Pa
ANSWER: C

5) When the pressure on a gas increases, will the volume increase or decrease?
A. Volume will decrease.
B. Volume will increase.
C. Volume will remain constant.
ANSWER: A

FLUID MECHANICS

1) Define density?
A. mass of 0.25 object of the substance in grams?
B. a measure of the amount of information on a storage medium
C. ratio of an objects mass to the volume it occupies, and is frequently given the symbol rho () in physics.
ANSWER: C

2) Fresh water has a density of 1000 kg/m3. Which of the following materials will float on water?
A. Cork (=250 kg/m3)
B. Magnesium (=1740 kg/m3)
C. Glycerol (=1261 kg/m3)
ANSWER: A

3) What is aerodynamics drag?

A. aerodynamic drag is the fluid drag force that acts on any moving solid body in the direction of the fluid
freestream flow.
B. the rearward component of lift that occurs as a result of wing tip vortices bending the relative wind downward
C. is the drag incurred from frictional resistance of the blades passing through the air.
ANSWER: A

4) What is fluid pressure?

A. The pressure exerted by a static fluid depends only upon the depth of the fluid, the density of the fluid, and
the acceleration of gravity
B. Fluid pressure is the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
C. Fluid is any substance that flow or conforms to the outline of the container.
ANSWER: A

5) The pressure measured from an absolute vacuum is known as:

A. absolute pressure
B. gauge pressures.
C. ambient pressure
ANSWER: C