PROBLEMS:

1. Two kilogram of boiling water is poured into an empty thermos whose mass is 4 kilogram and whose
temperature is 30oC. No heat us loss from the thermos. The specific heats of water and the thermos are
1 and 0.5 kilocalories per kilogram degree Celsius, respectively. Their final temperature is
A. 50 degrees Celsius B. 65 degrees Celsius
C. 75 degrees Celsius D. 90 degrees Celsius

2. A 1.5m3 container is field with a fluid whose specific volume is 0.005 m3/kg. At standard gravitation, the
contents of this container weigh
A. 2040 N B. 2940 N
C. 4940 N D. 4040 N

3. A piston cylinder device initially contains 1 m3 of air at 120 kPa and 90oC. The air is now compressed to
0.4 m3 in such a way that the temperature inside the cylinder remains constant. Determine the work
done during this process.
A. -122 kJ B. -133 kJ
C. -110 kJ D. -135 kJ

4. A carnot engine operating between 900 K and 400 K produces 80kJ of work. Determine heat added on
the system (QA)?
A. 96kJ B. 144kJ
C. 100kJ D. 122kJ

5. If a system absorbs 600 cal of heat at the time does 500J of work, find the change in internal energy of
the system.
A. 1010 J B. 1700 J
C. 2010 J D. 2200 J

6. Thirty grams of ice at 0oC melts to water at 0oC. How much does the entropy change?
A. 32.5 J/K B. 24.6 J/K
C. 36.8 J/K D. 45.7 J/K

7. The radiator of a room contains 15kg of water, if the water gives off 60,000 calories of heat to the room,
the drop in temperature of the water is
A. 3 degree Celsius B. 4 degrees Celsius
C. 5 degrees Celsius D. 6 degrees Celsius

8. On the day when the barometer reads 900 mmHg, a tire pressure gage reads 300 kPa. The absolute
pressure in the tire is
A. 150 kPa B. 200 kPa
C. 3.15 mHg D. 2.29 mHg

9. How many molecules are present in 2.5 liters of gas at STP?

A. 2.16x1024 B. 1.08x1023
C. 4.21x10 23
D. 6.71x1022

10. 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 0.06 m3 to 0.12 m3 at a constant pressure of 300kPa. Find the work done on
the system.
A. 10 kJ B. 16 kJ
C. 18 kJ D. 12 kJ