PROBLEM SOLVING

Question 1
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The fluid in a manometer tube is 60 % water and 40 % alcohol (S.G. = 0.83). What is the manometer fluid height
difference (in ft) if a 5.1 psi pressure is applied across the two ends of a manometer?

Question 2
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Determine the resistance (in F-h/BTU) of a hollow cylinder with an inside and outside radius of 2 in and 2.1 in,
respectively. The length of the cylinder is 7 ft while the thermal conductivity is 19 BTU/hr-ft-F

Question 3
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Calculate the amount of energy (in BTU) required to heat the air in a house 21 ft by 22 ft by 43 ft from 18 to 119
ºF. The density of air is 0.08 lb/ft3. 

 Question 4
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What is the Reynolds number of a fluid flowing in a tube with an inside diameter of 1 inches? The viscocity is
1.353 x 10^ -5  lb/ft-s and the mass flow rate is 79 lb/h.

 Question 5
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What is the kinetic energy if the mass is 51 lb and the velocity is 4 ft/s in ft-lbf?

 Question 6
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What is the absolute pressure (kPa) if the vacuum pressure is 47 kPa?

 Question 7
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What is the ºAPI if the specific gravity at 15.6 ºC is 0.897?

 Question 8
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A 663 kg hammer of a pile driver is lifted 3.3 meters above a piling head. If the hammer is released, what will be
its velocity (in m/s) at the instant it strikes the piling?

 Question 9
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A Carnot engine receives 132 BTU of heat form a hot reservoir at 657 °F and rejects 54 BTU of heat.  Calculate
the temperature of the cold reservoir.  

 Question 10
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If the velocity of discharge from a fire hose is 12 m/s and the hose is oriented at 35º from the
horizontal, disregarding air friction, determine the maximum range of discharge (in m).

 Question 11
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The maximum thermal efficiency (in %) possible for a power cycle operating between 1,395 °F and 218°F is: 

 Question 12
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A 53 kW electric furnace measures 1.1m x 1.5m x 0.8m. When the temperature inside the furnace is 1,680 ºC, a
block of aluminum with a mass of 398 kg and a temperature of 17 ºC is placed inside. Assuming the heat loss
from the furnace walls is 474 W/m, how long (in min) will it take to heat the block to the furnace temperature?
(Specific heat of aluminum is 0.9 kJ/kg. K)

 Question 13
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The thermal conductivity of a fluid is 0.09 BTU/ft-h-F having a kinematic viscosity of 0.0212 ft2/h. If the density
and specific heat at constant pressure are 53.1 lbm/ft3 and 0.443 BTU/lb-F, respectively, determine the Prandtl
number. 

 Question 14
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How far below the water surface (in m) should the center of a vertical square 0.9 m on a side with two sides
horizontal to be immersed so that the center of pressure will be 60 mm below the center of gravity?

 Question 15
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A ball dropped from the roof of a building 97 m high will hit the ground with a velocity of _____ m/s.
 Question 16
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In a diesel cycle, what is the expansion ratio if the % clearance  is 1/19 while the cut-off ratio is 2.69?

 Question 17
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A power station uses oil-fired boilers which are supplied with fuel from 4 cylindrical tanks, each with 13 m
diameter and 11 m high. The calorific value of the oil is 38,260 kJ/kg and its relative density is 0.79. The output
from the power station is 66 MW. Assuming the only 22% of the heat input is converted to into electrical energy
output, how long will the boilers run (in days) on the oil in the tanks.

 Question 18
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A centrifugal pump uses a 122,593 rpm motor to pump 117,100 kg/min of standard temperature water and has a
pressure rise from 4 bar to 36 bar using a 0.11 cm diameter impeller. The inlet diameter is 0.36 cm and the outlet
diameter is 0.18 cm. The inlet and outlet are at the same level with each other.

What will be your total dynamic head (in m)?

 Question 19
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Hot gases at 278 ºC flow on one side of a metal plate of 10 mm thickness and air at 48 ºC flows on the other side.
The heat transfer coefficient of the gases is 32 W/m2-K and that of the air is 29.6 W/m2-K. Calculate the over-all
heat transfer coefficient if the value of the thermal conductivity is 7 W/m-K.

 Question 20
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The % clearance of an Otto cycle is 0.127. If the initial pressure is 88 kPag, determine the final pressure. 

 Question 21
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An open tank 1.13 meter in diameter and 1.5 m height is filled with diesel oil (S.G. = 0.87). Assuming 72% of its
capacity is occupied by the diesel; calculate the absolute pressure (in kPa) of the fluid at the bottom of the tank.
 Question 22
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An airplane has a mass of 206,252 kg and carries 364 passengers having an average mass of 60 kg each. What is
the total energy of the loaded airplane (in MJ) when traveling at 864 km/hr at a height of 9,067 m above the sea
level?

 Question 23
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In a cylinder, the heat rejected is 49 kJ while the decrease in internal energy of the gas is 96 kJ. What is the work
in kJ?

 Question 24
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The jet discharges water at the rate of 3 m3/s and at a speed of 10 m/s to stationary plate. Determine the force on
the plate in kN. 

 Question 25
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Steam enters a nozzle steadily with a velocity of 143 m/s and enthalpy of 1,448 KJ/kg and leaves with an
enthalpy of 1,193 KJ/kg. Neglecting heat transfer, what is the velocity of steam at the nozzle outlet in m/s?

 Question 26
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If 3.4 kg metal with 91 ºC temperatures is immersed into 5 kg of water at 10 ºC, what will be the final
temperature of the water after immersion? Cp metal = 0.913 KJ/kg-K

 Question 27
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A rocket of mass 1.7x104 kg accelerates at 229 m/s2 for 30 s from an initial speed of 5,121 m/s. How much
kinetic energy (in J) has the rocket gained?

 Question 28
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One kg of water initially at 18 ºC is to be freeze at –1ºC. Calculate the total amount of heat (in kJ) to be removed
during the cooling process? Cp(ice) = 0.5(Cpw)

 Question 29
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What is the weight (in lbf) of a 441 lb mass object?
 Question 30
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A tank contains 19 liters of lubricating oil having a relative density of 0.88 and a temperature of 14 ºC. The oil is
heated for 17 minutes by a 2.01 kW electric heater. Determine the final temperature (in ºC)  of the oil assuming a
heat loss of 232 W on the tank. (cp oil is 2 kJ/kg-K)

 Question 31
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A pressure of 1 millibar is equivalent to

 Question 32
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The enthalpy of air is increased by 139.586 kJ/kg in a compressor.  The rate of air flow is 16.42 kg/min.  The
power input is 48.2 kW.  Which of the following values most nearly equals the heat loss from the compressor in
kW? 

 Question 33
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For an ideal gas, what is the specific molar entropy change (in J/mol-K) during an isothermal process in which the pressure
changes from 200 kPa to 150 kPa?

 Question 34
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Helium is compressed isothermally from 14.7 psia and 68F. The compression ratio is 4. Calculate the change in

entropy of the gas given that  .

 Question 35
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The sun generates 1 kW/m2 when used as a source for solar collectors.  A collector with an area of 1 m2 heats
water.  The flow rate is 3.0 liters/min.  What is the temperature rise in the water?  The specific heat of water is
4,200 J/kg -°C. 

 Question 36
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If the absolute pressure at the bottom of the ocean is 120kPa, how deep is the water at this point? S.G. sea water
= 1.03
  Question 37
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The pressure reading of 35 psi in kPa is:

 Question 38
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A 300 HP engine is given a brake test. The brakes are water cooled. At what rate must the water at 80 deg. F
flow through the brakes if the water must not rise above 180 deg. F?

 Question 39
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200 g of water are heated from 5C to 100C and vaporized at a constant pressure. The heat of vaporization of water

at 100C is   . The heat capacity at constant pressure, cp , is   . Determine the total change in
entropy in cal/K.

 Question 40
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A car weighing 40 tons is switched to a 2 percent upgrade with a velocity of 30 mph. If the train resistance in 10
lb/ton, how far up the grade will go?

TERMINOLOGY
 Question 1
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The pressure measured above a perfect vacuum.

 Question 2
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If the pressure of a gas is constant the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature.

 Question 3
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The efficiency of hydraulic braking system is:

 Question 4
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The properties of fluid at stagnation in state are called:

 Question 5
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Which is not correct for calculating air standard efficiency?

 Question 6
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Most commercially available petroleum lubricating oil deteriorates staring from operating
temperature of:

 Question 7
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If the substance has a higher temperature than the saturation temperature at a given pressure, the substance is

 Question 8
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When H20 in the products of combustion is in liquid form the heating value is known as:

 Question 9
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Which of the following is the basis for Bernoulli’s law for fluid flow?

 Question 10
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Which of the following is used as entrainer in acetic acid-water separation?

 Question 11
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The absolute zero on the Fahrenheit scale is at

 Question 12
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What is the temperature difference of the cycle if the entropy difference Is S, and the work
done is W?

 Question 13
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The products of complete combustion of gaseous hydrocarbons

 Question 14
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The function of a superheater is to:

 Question 15
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A process which gives the same states/conditions after the system undergoes a series of processes:

 Question 16
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The minimum amount of air required for a complete combustion of fuel is called

 Question 17
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In an oxidation – reduction chemical reaction, all of the following occur except:

 Question 18
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Atomic weights of the elements in the periodic table are not whole numbers because of:

 Question 19
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The total entropy of a pure substance approaches zero as the absolute thermodynamics
temperature approaches zero.

 Question 20
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Stoichiometric ratio is

 Question 21
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The equilibrium distance between elements in an ionic bond is function of all the following
except:

 Question 22
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If the composition of hydrocarbon fuel is known, the ration between the nitrogen and oxygen
that is supplied in air is:
 Question 23
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When a substance in gaseous state is below the critical temperature, it is called

 Question 24
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What is the chemical formula of an aromatic type of hydrocarbon fuels?

 Question 25
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Form of energy associated with the kinetic energy of the random motion of large number of
molecules.

 Question 26
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Flash point for diesel fuel oil should be:

 Question 27
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The function of a heat exchanger is to:

 Question 28
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At critical point the latent enthalpy of vaporization is _______.

 Question 29
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States that it is impossible to devise a cyclically operating device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy in the form of
heat from a single thermal reservoir (heat source) and to deliver an equal amount of work.

 Question 30
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The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom or the number of electrons in the orbit of an
atom

 Question 31
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All of the following are types of chemical bonds except:

 Question 32
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To engage, securely and prevent dragging the clearance between bearing and release collar in
a clutch is generally:

 Question 33
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The device that measures the temperature by the electromotive force.
 Question 34
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Brayton cycle has

 Question 35
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In a confined gas if the absolute pressure is held constant the volume is directly proportional
to the absolute pressure.

 Question 36
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What is the apparatus used in the analysis of combustible gases?

 Question 37
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What happens to the heat transferred radially across insulated pipe per unit area?

 Question 38
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Equation of state for a single component can be any of the following except:

 Question 39
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Which of the following is the equivalent heat transferred of a gas undergoing
isometric process?

 Question 40
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Weight per unit volume is termed as

 Question 41
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A substance whose state is define by variable intensive thermodynamics properties.

 Question 42
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If a substance temperature is equal to its saturation temperature, the substance is a
________.

 Question 43
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A device for measuring the velocity of wind

 Question 44
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 Gauge pressure and absolute pressure differ from each other by:

 Question 45
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The relationship between the total volume of a mixture of non-reacting gases and
their partial volume is given by:

 Question 46
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The heat transfer term in the first law of thermodynamics may be due to any of the
following except:

 Question 47
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A chemical reaction in which heat is given off

 Question 48
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The maximum possible work that can be obtained a cycle operating between two reservoirs is found from:

 Question 49
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Which of the following provides the basis for measuring thermodynamic property of
temperature?

 Question 50
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Two bodies, each in thermal equilibrium with a third body, are in thermal equilibrium with each other is a
statement referred to :

 Question 51
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If any one or more properties of a system change, the system is said to have undergone a
________.

 Question 52
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A graph of enthalpy versus entropy for steam:

 Question 53
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For pure metals, what happens to the thermal conductivity if the temperature is
extremely high?

 Question 54
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The instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure is:

 Question 55
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Flows of fluid wherein its particles do not have definite paths and the paths of the individual
and distinct particles cross one another is:

 Question 56
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The heat needed to change to change the temperature of the body without changing its phase.

 Question 57
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Which of the following is a unit of thermal diffusivity?

 Question 58
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In the SI system of measurement, the base unit for mass is:

 Question 59
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The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature one lb of water one degree Fahrenheit is:

 Question 60
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The color of lubricating oil: