AP2 Ch11-12 Practice

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AP Physics 2 - Chapters 11 and 12 Practice
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. In an adiabatic free expansion

a. no heat is transferred between a system and its surroundings.
b. the pressure remains constant.
c. the temperature remains constant.
d. the volume remains constant.
e. the process is reversible.
____ 2. In which process will the internal energy of the system NOT change?
a. An adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas.
b. An isothermal compression of an ideal gas.
c. An isobaric expansion of an ideal gas.
d. The freezing of a quantity of liquid at its melting point.
e. The evaporation of a quantity of a liquid at its boiling point.
____ 3. How much heat, in joules, is required to convert 1.00 kg of ice at 0C into steam at 100C?
(Lice = 333,000 J/kg; Lsteam = 2.26  106 J/kg.)
a. 3.35  105 b. 4.19  105 c. 2.36  106 d. 2.69  106 e. 3.01  106
____ 4. Water at room temperature, 20C, is pumped into a reactor core where it is converted to steam at 200 C. How
much heat (in J) is transferred to each kilogram of water in this process?
(csteam = 2 010 J/kgC; Lsteam = 2.26  106 J/kg; 1 cal = 4.186 J.)
a. 3.35  105 b. 7.53  105 c. 2.67  106 d. 2.80  106 e. 3.01  106
____ 5. If 25 kg of ice at 0C is combined with 4 kg of steam at 100C, what will be the equilibrium temperature?
a. 40 C b. 20 C c. 60 C d. 100 C e. 8 C
____ 6. In an isothermal process

P V
a. P is constant. c. is constant. e. is constant.
T n
b. V is constant. d. PV is constant.
____ 7. A company that produces pulsed gas heaters claims their efficiency is approximately 90%. If an engine
operates between 250C and 25C, what is its maximum thermodynamic efficiency?
a. 83% b. 65% c. 43% d. 90% e. 56%
____ 8. By operating a reversible heat engine with an ideal gas as the working substance in a Carnot cycle and
measuring the ratio Qc/Qh, we can calculate
a. n, the number of moles of the ideal gas.
b. the ratio Vc/Vh of the volumes of the ideal gas.
c. the ratio Pc/Ph of the pressures of the ideal gas.
d. the ratio PcVc/PhVh of the products of volumes and pressures of the ideal gas.
e. the value of Avogadro's number.
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____ 9. The thermal efficiency of a heat engine is given by

W eng Th
a. e    . c. e  1  . e. only (a) or (b) above.
Qh  Tc
 Q    Q 
h c
b. e  Q  . d. all of the formulas above.
h
____ 10. A Carnot cycle, operating as a heat engine, consists, in the order given, of
a. an isothermal expansion, an isothermal compression, an adiabatic expansion and an
adiabatic compression.
b. an adiabatic expansion, an adiabatic compression, an isothermal expansion and an
isothermal compression.
c. an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic compression, an isothermal compression and an
adiabatic expansion.
d. an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression and an
adiabatic compression.
____ 11. Which answer below is not a statement of the second law of thermodynamics?
a. Real processes proceed in a preferred direction.
b. Energy does not flow spontaneously by heat from a cold to a hot reservoir.
c. The entropy of the universe increases in all natural processes.
d. In theory, heat engines working in a cycle employ reversible processes.
e. You cannot construct a heat engine, operating in a cycle that does nothing but take heat
from a reservoir and perform an equal amount of work.
____ 12. A gas expands from A to B as shown in the graph. Calculate the work (in joules) done by the gas.
a. 12 b. 24 c. 1.21  106 d. 2.42  106 e. 3.64  106
____ 13. A gas expands as shown in the graph. If the heat taken in during this process is 1.02  106 J, the change in
internal energy of the gas (in J) is
a. 2.42  106 b. 1.40  106 c. 1.02  106 d. 1.02  106 e. 1.40  106
____ 14. Assume 3.0 moles of a monatomic gas has an internal kinetic energy of 10 kJ. Determine the temperature of
the gas after it has reached equilibrium.
a. 270 K b. 160 K c. 800 K d. 96 K e. 400 K
____ 15. The internal energy of n moles of an ideal gas depends on

a. one state variable T. c. three state variables T, P and V.
b. two state variables V and P. d. four variables R, T, P and V.
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AP Physics 2 - Chapters 11 and 12 Practice

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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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3. E
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. D
9. E
10. D
11. D
12. D
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Name: ______________ Class: _ Date: __ ID: A

AP Physics 2 - Chapters 11 and 12 Practice

____ 1. In an adiabatic free expansion

____ 6. In an isothermal process

____ 9. The thermal efficiency of a heat engine is given by

a. 12 b. 24 c. 1.21  106 d. 2.42  106 e. 3.64  106

____ 15. The internal energy of n moles of an ideal gas depends on

AP Physics 2 - Chapters 11 and 12 Practice

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