Mechanical Engineering MCQ Thermodymics

Thermodynamics Objective Type  (d) millimeter.

Questions And Answers (Top 150) Answer : a
6. The unit of time in S.I. units is
1. Which of the following variables
controls the physical properties of a  (a) second
perfect gas  (b) minute
 (c) hour
 (a) pressure
 (d) day
 (b) temperature
 (e) year.
 (c) volume
Answer : a
 (d) all of the above
 (e) atomic mass. 7. The unit of energy in S.I. units is
Answer : d
 (a) watt
2. The unit of temperature in S.I. units  (b) joule
is  (c) joule/s
 (a) Centigrade  (d) joule/m
 (b) Celsius  (e) joule m.
 (c) Fahrenheit Answer : b
 (d) Kelvin 8. According to Gay-Lussac law for a
 (e) Rankine. perfect gas, the absolute pressure of
Answer : d given mass varies directly as

3. Which of the following laws is  (a) temperature

applicable for the behavior of a perfect  (b) absolute
gas  (c) absolute temperature, if volume is
kept constant
 (a) Boyle’s law
 (d) volume, if temperature is kept
 (b) Charles’law
constant
 (c) Gay-Lussac law
 (e) remains constant,if volume and
 (d) all of the above temperature are kept constant.
 (e) Joule’s law. Answer : c
Answer : d
9. General gas equation is
4. The unit of mass in S.I. units is
 (a) PV=nRT
 (a) kilogram  (b) PV=mRT
 (b) gram  (d) PV = C
 (c) tonne  (c) PV=KiRT
 (d) quintal  (e) Cp-Cv = Wj
 (e) newton. Answer : b
Answer : a
10. An ideal gas as compared to a real
5. The unit of length in S.I. units is gas at very high pressure occupies
 (a) meter  (a) more volume
 (b) centimeter  (b) less volume
 (c) kilometer  (c) same volume

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 (d) unpredictable behaviour  (a) mass does not cross boundaries of

 (e) no such correlation. the system, though energy may do so
Answer : a  (b) mass crosses the boundary but not
the energy
11. Which of the following can be  (c) neither mass nor energy crosses
regarded as gas so that gas laws the boundaries of the system
could be applicable, within the
 (d) both energy and mass cross the
commonly encountered temperature
limits. boundaries of the system
 (e) thermodynamic reactions take
 (a) 02, N2, steam, C02 place.
 (b) Oz, N2, water vapour Answer : a
 (c) S02, NH3, C02, moisture
16. According to kinetic theory of
 (d) 02, N2, H2, air gases, the absolute zero temperature
 (e) steam vapours, H2, C02. is attained when
Answer : d
 (a) volume of the gas is zero
12. According to Dalton’s law, the total  (b) pressure of the gas is zero
pres sure of the mixture of gases is  (c) kinetic energy of the molecules is
equal to zero
 (a) greater of the partial pressures of all  (d) specific heat of gas is zero
 (b) average of the partial pressures of  (e) mass is zero.
all Answer : c
 (c) sum of the partial pressures of all
17. The pressure’of a gas in terms of
 (d) sum of the partial pressures of all its mean kinetic energy per unit
divided by average molecular weight volume E is equal to
 (e) atmospheric pressure.
 (a) E/3
Answer : c
 (b) E/2
13. The unit of pressure in S.I. units is  (c) 3E/4
 (a) kg/cm2  (d)2E/3
 (b) mm of water column  (e) 5E/4.
 (c) pascal Answer : d
 (d) dynes per square cm 18. Kinetic theory of gases assumes
 (e) bars that the collisions between the
Answer : c molecules are

14. Temperature of a gas is produced  (a) perfectly elastic

due to  (b) perfectly inelastic

 (a) its heating value  (c) partly elastic

 (b) kinetic energy of molecules  (d) partly inelastic

 (c) repulsion of molecules  (e) partly elastic and partly inelastic.

 (d) attraction of molecules Answer : a

 (e) surface tension of molecules. 19. Kinetic energy of the molecules in
Answer : b terms of absolute temperature (T) is
proportional to
15. A closed system is one in which

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 (a) T  (c) a temperature of 273 °K

 (b) j  (d) a negative pressure and 0°C
 (c) J2 temperature
 (d) Vr  (e) can’t be attained.
 (e) 1/Vr. Answer : a
Answer : a 25. Specific heat of air at constant
pressure is equal to
20. Superheated vapour behaves
 (a) 0.17
 (a) exactly as gas
 (b) 0.21
 (b) as steam
 (c) 0.24
 (c) as ordinary vapour
 (d) 1.0
 (d) approximately as a gas
 (e) 1.41
 (e) as average of gas and vapour.
Answer : c
Answer : d
26. Intensive property of a system is
21. No liquid can exist as liquid at
one whose value
 (a) – 273 °K
 (a) depends on the mass of the system,
 (b) vacuum like volume
 (c) zero pressure  (b) does not depend on the mass of the
 (d) centre of earth system, like temperature, pressure,
 (e) in space. etc.
Answer : c  (c) is not dependent on the path
followed but on the state
22. Absolute zero pressure will occur  (d) is dependent on the path followed
 (a) at sea level and not on the state
 (b) at the center of the earth  (e) remains constant.
 (c) when molecular momentum of the Answer : b
system becomes zero 27. Characteristic gas constant of a
 (d) under vacuum conditions gas is equal to
 (e) at a temperature of – 273 °K
 (a) C/Cv
Answer : c
 (b) Cv/Cp
23. The unit of power in S.I. units is  (c) Cp – Cv
 (a) newton  (d) Cp + Cv
 (b) pascal  (e) Cp x Cv
 (c) erg Answer : c
 (d) watt 28. The behaviour of gases can be
 (e) joule. fully determined by
Answer : d  (a) 1 law
24. The condition of perfect vacuum,  (b) 2 laws
i.e., absolute zero pressure can be  (c) 3 laws
attained at  (d) 4 laws
 (a) a temperature of – 273.16°C Answer : d
 (b) a temperature of 0°C

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29. Boyle’s law i.e. pV = constant is Answer : c

applicable to gases under
34. An open system is one in which
 (a) all ranges of pressures
 (a) mass does not cross boundaries of
 (b) only small range of pressures
the system, though energy may do so
 (c) high range of pressures
 (b) neither mass nor energy crosses
 (d) steady change of pressures the boundaries of the system
 (e) atmospheric conditions.  (c) both energy and mass cross the
Answer : b boundaries of the system
 (d) mass crosses the boundary but not
30. The ratio of two specific heats of
air is equal to the energy
 (e) thermodynamic reactions do not
 (a) 0.17 occur.
 (b) 0.24 Answer : c
 (c) 0.1
35. Gases have
 (d) 1.41
 (e) 2.71.  (a) only one value of specific heat
Answer : d  (b) two values of specific heat
 (c) three values of specific heat
31. Which law states that the internal
 (d) no value of specific heat
energy of a gas is a function of
temperature  (e) under some conditions one value
and sometimes two values of specific
 (a) Charles’ law heat.
 (b) Joule’s law Answer : b
 (c) Regnault’s law
36. According to which law, all perfect
 (d) Boyle’s law gases change in volume by l/273th of
 (e) there is no such law. their original volume at 0°C for every
Answer : b 1°C change in temperature when
pressure remains constant
32. Which law states that the specific
heat of a gas remains constant at all  (a) Joule’s law
temperatures and pressures  (b) Boyle’s law

 (a) Charles’ Law  (c) Regnault’s law

 (b) Joule’s Law  (d) Gay-Lussac law

 (c) Regnault’s Law  (e) Charles’ law.

 (d) Boyle’s Law

Answer : e
 (e) there is no such law. 37. According to Avogadro’s
Answer : c Hypothesis

33. The same volume of all gases  (a) the molecular weights of all the
would represent their perfect gases occupy the same volume
under same conditions of pressure and
 (a) densities temperature
 (b) specific weights  (b) the sum of partial pressure of
 (c) molecular weights mixture of two gases is sum of the two
 (d) gas characteristic constants
 (e) specific gravities.

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 (c) product of the gas constant and the  (b) – ve

molecular weight of an ideal gas is  (c) zero
constant
 (d) pressure x volume
 (d) gases have two values of specific
 (e) any where between zero and
heat
infinity.
 (e) all systems can be regarded as
Answer : c
closed systems.
Answer : a 42. To convert volumetric analysis to
gravimetric analysis, the relative
38. Work done in a free expansion volume of each constituent of the flue
process is gases is
 (a) + ve  (a) divided by its molecular weight
 (b) -ve  (b) multiplied by its molecular weight
 (c) zero  (c) multiplied by its density
 (d) maximum  (d) multiplied by its specific weight
 (e) minimum.  (e) divided by its specific weight.
Answer : c Answer : b
39. Extensive property of a system is 43. Properties of substances like
one whose value pressure, temperature and density, in
thermodynamic coordinates are
 (a) depends on the mass of the system
like volume  (a) path functions
 (b) does not depend on the mass of the  (b) point functions
system, like temperature, pressure,
 (c) cyclic functions
etc.
 (d) real functions
 (c) is not dependent on the path
followed but on the state  (e) thermodynamic functions.

 (d) is dependent on the path followed Answer : b

and not on the state 44. An isolated system is one in which
 (e) is always constant.
 (a) mass does not cross boundaries of
Answer : a
the system, though energy may do so
40. The statement that molecular  (b) neither mass nor energy crosses
weights of all gases occupy the same the boundaries of the system
volume is known as  (c) both energy and mass cross the
 (a) Avogadro’s hypothesis boundaries of the system
 (b) Dalton’s law  (d) mass crosses the boundary but not
the energy
 (c) Gas law
 (e) thermodynamic reactions do not
 (d) Law of thermodynamics
occur.
 (e) Joule’s law.
Answer : b
Answer : a
45. Which of the following quantities is
41. If a gas is heated against a not the property of the system
pressure, keeping the volume
constant, then work done will be equal  (a) pressure
to  (b) temperature
 (a) + v  (c) specific volume

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 (d) heat  (a) pressure

 (e) density.  (b) temperature
Answer : d  (c) density
 (d) heat
46. Mixture of ice and water form a
 (e) specific volume.
 (a) closed system Answer : d
 (b) open system
51. Which of the following items is not
 (c) isolated system
a path function
 (d) heterogeneous system
 (e) thermodynamic system.  (a) heat
Answer : d  (b) work
 (c) kinetic energy
47. According to Avogadro’s law, for a
 (d) vdp
given pressure and temperature, each
molecule of a gas  (e) thermal conductivity.
Answer : e
 (a) occupies volume proportional to its
molecular weight 52. Heat and work are
 (b) occupies volume proportional to its
 (a) point functions
specific weight
 (b) system properties
 (c) occupies volume inversely
proportional to its molecular weight  (c) path functions

 (d) occupies volume inversely  (d) intensive properties

proportional to its specific weight  (e) extensive properties.
 (e) occupies same volume. Answer : c
Answer : e 53. Work done in an adiabatic process
48. On weight basis, air contains between a given pair of end states
following parts of oxygen depends on

 (a) 21  (a) the end states only

 (b) 23  (b) particular adiabatic process

 (c) 25  (c) the value of index n

 (d) 73  (d) the value of heattransferred

 (e) 79.  (e) mass of the system.

Answer : b Answer : a

49. Which of the following is the 54. Which of the following parameters
property of a system is constant for a mole for most of the
gases at a given temperature and
 (a) pressure and temperature pressure
 (b) internal energy
 (a) enthalpy
 (c) volume and density
 (b) volume
 (d) enthalpy and entropy
 (c) mass
 (e) all of the above.
 (d) entropy
Answer : e
 (e) specific volume.
50. Which of the following is not the Answer : b
intensive property

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55. A perfect gas at 27°C is heated at  (e) process is isentropic and specific
constant pressure till its volume is heat changes with temperature.
double. The final temperature is Answer : d
 (a) 54°C 60. The term N.T.P. stands for
 (b) 327°C
 (a) nominal temperature and pressure
 (c) 108°C
 (b) natural temperature and pressure
 (d) 654°C
 (c) normal temperature and pressure
 (e) 600°C
 (d) normal thermodynamic practice
Answer : b
 (e) normal thermodynamic pressure.
56. The value of n = 1 in the polytropic Answer : c
process indicates it to be
61. A heat exchange process in which
 (a) reversible process the product of pressure and volume
 (b) isothermal process remains constant is known as
 (c) adiabatic process
 (a) heat exchange process
 (d) irreversible process
 (b) throttling process
 (e) free expansion process.
 (c) isentropic process
Answer : b
 (d) adiabatic process
57. Solids and liquids have  (e) hyperbolic process.
Answer : e
 (a) one value of specific heat (ft) two
values of specific heat 62. Change in enthalpy of a system is
 (c) three values of specific heat the heat supplied at
 (d) no value of specific heat
 (a) constant pressure
 (e) one value under some conditions
 (b) constant temperature
and two values under other conditions.
 (c) constant volume
Answer : a
 (d) constant entropy
58. If value of n is infinitely large in a  (e) N.T.P. condition.
polytropic process pV” = C, then the
Answer : a
process is known as constant
63. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
 (a) volume
 (b) pressure  (a) deals with conversion of mass and
 (c) temperature energy
 (d) enthalpy  (b) deals with reversibility and
irreversibility of process
 (e) entropy.
 (c) states that if two systems are both
Answer : a
in equilibrium with a third system, they
59. The index of compression n tends are in thermal equilibrium with each
to reach ratio of specific heats y when other
 (d) deals with heat engines
 (a) flow is uniform and steady
 (e) does not exist.
 (b) process is isentropic
Answer : c
 (c) process is isothermal
 (d) process is isentropic and specific 64. In an isothermal process, the
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 (a) increases 69. In a non-flow reversible process

 (b) decreases for which p = (- 3V+ 15) x 105N/m2,V
changes from 1 m to 2 m3. The work
 (c) remains constant
done will be about
 (d) may increase/decrease depending
on the properties of gas  (a) 100 xlOO5 joules
 (e) shows unpredictable behaviour.  (b) lxlO5 joules
Answer : c  (c) 10 xlO5 joules
 (d) 10 xlO5 kilo joules
65. If a certain amount of dry ice is
mixed with same amount of water at  (e) 10xl04ki\ojoules.
80°C, the final temperature of mixture Answer : c
will be
70. For which of the following
 (a) 80°C substances, the gas laws can be used
 (b) 0°C with minimum error
 (c) 40°C  (a) dry steam
 (d) 20°C  (b) wet steam
 (e) 60°C.  (c) saturated steam
Answer : b  (d) superheated steam
66. One watt is equal to  (e) steam at atmospheric pressure.
Answer : d
 (a) 1 Nm/s
 (b) 1 N/mt 71. On volume basis, air contains
following parts of oxygen
 (c) 1 Nm/hr
 (d) 1 kNm/hr  (a) 21
 (e) 1 kNm/mt.  (b) 23
Answer : a  (c) 25
 (d) 77
67. Work done is zero for the following
process  (e) 79.
Answer : a
 (a) constant volume
 (b) free expansion 72. The value of the product of
molecular weight and the gas
 (c) throttling
characteristic constant for all the
 (d) all Of the above gases in M.K.S. unit is
 (e) none of the above.
 (a) 29.27 kgfm/mol°K
Answer : d
 (b) 8314kgfm/mol°K
68. The basis for measuring  (c) 848kgfm/mol°K
thermodynamic property of
 (d) 427kgfm/mol°K
temperature is given by
 (e) 735 kgfm/mol°K.
 (a) zeroth law of thermodynamics Answer : c
 (b) first law of thermodynamics
73. Universal gas constant is defined
 (c) second law of thermodynamics
as equal to product of the molecular
 (d) third law of thermodynamics weight of the gas and
 (e) Avogadro’s hypothesis.
 (a) specific heat at constant pressure
Answer : a

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 (b) specific heat at constant volume  (e) throttling.

 (c) ratio of two specific heats Answer : e
 (d) gas constant
78. If a fluid expands suddenly into
 (e) unity. vacuum through an orifice of large
Answer : d dimension, then such a process is
called
74. For which of the following
substances, the internal energy and  (a) free expansion
enthalpy are the functions of  (b) hyperbolic expansion
temperature only
 (c) adiabatic expansion
 (a) any gas  (d) parabolic expansion
 (b) saturated steam  (e) throttling.
 (c) water Answer : a
 (d) perfect gas
79. The specific heat of air increases
 (e) superheated steam. with increase in
Answer : d
 (a) temperature
75. In a free expansion process  (b) pressure
 (a) work done is zero  (c) both pressure and temperature
 (b) heat transfer is zero  (d) variation of its constituents
 (c) both (a) and (b) above  (e) air flow
 (d) work done is zero but heat Answer : a
increases 80. Which of the following processes
 (e) work done is zero but heat are thermodynamically reversible
decreases.
Answer : c  (a) throttling
 (b) free expansion
76. The value of the product of
 (c) constant volume and constant
molecular weight and the gas
pressure
characteristic constant for all the
gases in S.I. units is  (d) hyperbolic and pV = C
 (e) isothermal and adiabatic.
 (a) 29.27 J/kmol°K Answer : e
 (b) 83.14J/kmol°K
 (c) 848J/kmol°K 81. In order that a cycle be reversible,
following must be satisfied
 (d) All J/kmol °K
 (e) 735 J/kmol °K.  (a) free expansion or friction resisted
Answer : b expansion/compression process
should not be encountered
77. If a gas vapour is allowed to  (b) when heat is being absorbed,
expand through a very minute temperature of hot source and working
aperture, then such a process is sub¬stance should be same
known as
 (c) when beat is being rejected,
 (a) free expansion temperature of cold source and
working sub-stance should be same
 (b) hyperbolic expansion
 (d) all of the above
 (c) adiabatic expansion
 (e) none of the above.
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Answer : d  (a) 4.17m3/kgmol

 (b) 400 m3/kg mol
82. Which of the following processes
is irreversible process  (c) 0.15 m3/kg mol
 (d) 41.7 m3/kg mol
 (a) isothermal
 (e) 417m3/kgmol.
 (b) adiabatic
Answer : a
 (c) throttling
 (d) all of the above 87. The more effective way of
increasing efficiency of Carnot engine
 (e) none of the above.
is to
Answer : c
 (a) increase higher temperature
83. For a thermodynamic process to
 (b) decrease higher temperature
be reversible, the temperature
difference between hot body and  (c) increase lower temperature
working substance should be  (d) decrease lower temperature
 (e) keep lower temperature constant.
 (a) zero
Answer : d
 (b) minimum
 (d) maximum 88. For reversible adiabatic process,
 (d) infinity change in entropy is
 (e) there is no such criterion.  (a) maximum
Answer : a  (b) minimum
84. Minimum work in compressor is  (c) zero
possible when the value of adiabatic  (d) unpredictable
index n is equal to  (e) negative
 (a) 0.75 Answer : c
 (b) 1 89. Entropy change depends on
 (c) 1.27
 (a) heat transfer
 (d) 1.35
 (b) mass transfer
 (e) 2.
 (c) change of temperature
Answer : b
 (d) thermodynamic state
85. A gas is compressed in a cylinder  (e) change of pressure and volume.
by a movable piston to a volume one-
Answer : a
half its original volume. During the
process 300 kJ heat left the gas and 90. Isochoric process is one in which
internal energy remained same. The
work done on gas in Nm will be  (a) free expansion takes place
 (b) very little mechanical work is done
 (a) 300 Nm by the system
 (b) 300,000 Nm  (c) no mechanical work is done by the
 (c) 30 Nm system
 (d) 3000 Nm  (d) all parameters remain constant
 (e) 30,000 Nm.  (e) mass and energy transfer do not
Answer : b take place.
Answer : c
86. Molecular volume of any perfect
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91. Energy can neither be created nor the reversible process takes place at
destroyed but can be converted from constant
one form to other is inferred from
 (a) pressure
 (a) zeroth low of thermodynamic  (b) temperature
 (b) first law of thermodynamics  (c) volume
 (c) second law to thermodynamics  (d) internal energy
 (d) basic law of thermodynamics  (e) entropy.
 (e) claussius statement. Answer : a
Answer : b
96. Change in internal energy in a
92. First law of thermodynamics closed system is equal to heat
furnishes the relationship between transferred if the reversible process
takes place at constant
 (a) heat and work
 (b) heat, work and properties of the  (a) pressure
system  (b) temperature
 (c) various properties of the system  (c) volume
 (d) various thermodynamic processes  (d) internal energy
 (e) heat and internal energy.  (e) entropy.
Answer : b Answer : c
93. According to first law of 97. Total heat of a substance is also
thermodynamics known as
 (a) work done by a system is equal to  (a) internal energy
heat transferred by the system  (b) entropy
 (b) total internal energy of a system  (c) thermal capacity
during a process remains constant
 (d) enthalpy
 (c) internal energy, enthalpy and
 (e) thermal conductance.
entropy during a process remain
constant Answer : d
 (d) total energy of a system remains 98. First law of thermodynamics
constant
 (a) enables to determine change in
 (e) entropy of a system remains
constant. internal energy of the system
 (b) does not help to predict whether the
Answer : d
system will or not undergo a change
94. In an isothermal process, the  (c) does not enable to determine
internal energy change in entropy
 (a) increases  (d) provides relationship between heat,
work and internal energy
 (b) decreases
 (e) all of the above.
 (c) remains constant
Answer : e
 (d) first increases and then decreases
 (e) first decreases and then increases. 99. According to first law of
Answer : c thermodynamics

95. Change in enthalpy in a closed  (a) mass and energy are mutually
system is equal to heat transferred if convertible

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 (b) Carnot engine is most efficient Answer : d

 (c) heat and work are mutually
104. An engine operates between
convertible
temperatures of 900°Kandr2 and
 (d) mass and light are mutually another engine between T2 and 400°K
convertible For both to do equal work, value of T2
 (e) heat flows from hot substance to will be
cold substance.
 (a) 650°K
Answer : c
 (b) 600°K
100. Addition of heat at constant  (c) 625°K
pressure to a gas results in
 (d) 700°K
 (a) raising its temperature  (e) 750°K.
 (b) raising its pressure Answer : a
 (c) raising its volume
105. Carnot cycle efficiency is
 (d) raising its temperature and doing maximum when
external work
 (e) doing external work.  (a) initial temperature is 0°K
Answer : d  (b) final temperature is 0°K
 (c) difference between initial and final
101. Measurement of temperature is temperature is 0°K
based on
 (d) final temperature is 0°C
 (a) thermodynamic properties  (e) initial temperature is minimum
 (b) zeroth law of thermodynamics possible.
 (c) first law of thermodynamics Answer : b
 (d) second law of thermodynamics 106. If heat be exchanged in a
 (e) joule’s law. reversible manner, which of the
Answer : b following property of the working
substance will change accordingly
102. Carnot cycle has maximum
efficiency for  (a) temperature
 (b) enthalpy
 (a) reversible engine
 (c) internal energy
 (b) irreversible engine
 (d) entropy
 (c) new engine
 (e) all of the above.
 (d) petrol engine
Answer : d
 (e) diesel engine.
Answer : a 107. Which of the following represents
the perpetual motion of the first kind
103. Carnot cycle efficiency depends
upon  (a) engine with 100% thermal
efficiency
 (a) properties of the  (b) a fully reversible engine
medium/substance used
 (c) transfer of heat energy from low
 (b) condition of engine temperature source to high
 (c) working condition temperature source
 (d) temperature range of operation  (d) a machine that continuously
 (e) effectiveness of insulating material creates its own energy
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 (e) production of energy by  (b) not possible

temperature differential in sea water at  (c) may be possible with lot of
different levels. sophistications
Answer : d  (d) cost will be very high
108. If a system after undergoing a  (e) theroretically possible.
series of processes, returns to the Answer : b
initial state then
112. A diathermic wall is one which
 (a) process is thermodynamically in
equilibrium  (a) prevents thermal interaction
 (b) process is executed in closed  (b) permits thermal interaction
system cycle  (c) encourages thermal interaction
 (c) its entropy will change due to  (d) discourages thermal interaction
irreversibility  (e) does not exist.
 (d) sum of heat and work transfer will Answer : b
be zero
 (e) no work will be done by the system.
113. The door of a running refrigerator
inside a room was left open. Which of
Answer : d the following statements is correct?
109. An actual engine is to be  (a) The room will be cooled to the
designed having same efficiency as temperature inside the refrigerator.
the Carnot cycle. Such a proposition
is  (b) The room will be cooled very
slightly.
 (a) feasible  (c) The room will be gradually warmed
 (b) impossible up.
 (c) possible  (d) The temperature of the air in room
 (d) possible, but with lot of will remain unaffected.
sophistications  (e) any one of above is possible
 (e) desirable. depending on the capacity.
Answer : d Answer : c

110. In a Carnot cycle, heat is 114. An adiabatic wall is one which

transferred at  (a) prevents thermal interaction
 (a) constant pressure  (b) permits thermal interaction
 (b) constant volume  (c) encourages thermal interaction
 (c) constant temperature  (d) discourages thermal interaction
 (d) constant enthaply  (e) dos not exist.
 (e) any one of the above. Answer : a
Answer : c 115. Compressed air coming out from
111. A manufacturer claims to have a a punctured football
heat engine capable of developing 20  (a) becomes hotter
h.p. by receiving heat input of 400
 (b) becomes cooler1
kcal/mt and working between the
temperature limits of 227° C and 27° C.  (c) remains at the same temperature
His claim is  (d) may become hotter or cooler
depend-ing upon the humidity of the
 (a) justified surround¬ing air

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 (e) attains atmospheric temperature.  (b) rains

Answer : b  (c) storm
 (d) cold wave
116. During throttling process
 (e) hot wave.
 (a) heat exchange does not take place Answer : c
 (b) no work is done by expanding
steam 121. Calorie is a measure of
 (c) there is no change of internal  (a) specific heat
energy of steam
 (b) quantity of heat
 (d) all of the above
 (c) thermal capacity
 (e) entropy decreases.
 (d)entropy
Answer : d
 (e) work.
117. Water contained in a beaker can Answer : b
be made to boil by passing steam
through it 122. I kgf/cm2 is equal to

 (a) at atmospheric pressure  (a) 760 mm Hg

 (b) at a pressure below the  (b) zero mm Hg
firuosphejric pressure  (c) 735.6 mm Hg
 (c) at a pressure greater than  (d) 1 mm Hg
atmospheric pressure  (e) l00 mm Hg.
 (d) any pressure Answer : c
 (e) not possible.
123. One barometric pressure or 1
Answer : c atmospheric pressure is equal to
118. The energy of molecular motion  (a) 1 kgf/cnr2
appears as
 (b) 1.033 kgf/cm2
 (a) heat  (c) 0 kgf/cm2
 (b) potential energy  (d) 1.0197 kgf/cm2
 (c) surface tension  (e) 100 kgf/cm2.
 (d) friction Answer : b
 (e) increase in pressure.
124. Barometric pressure is equal to
Answer : a
 (a) 760 mm Hg
119. The unit’of universal gas
 (b) zero mm Hg
constant is
 (c) 735.6 mm Hg
 (a) watts/°K  (d) 1 mm Hg
 (b) dynes/°C  (e) 100mm Hg.
 (c) ergscm/°K Answer : a
 (d)erg/°K
 (e) none of the above.
125. The first law of thermodynamics
is the law of
Answer : d
 (a) conservation of mass
120. A sudden fall in the barometer
 (b) conservation of energy
reading is a sign of approaching
 (c) conservation of momentum
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 (d) conservation of heat  (d) all of the above

 (e) conservation of temperature.  (e) none of the above.
Answer : b Answer : e
126. Kelvin Planck’s law deals with 130. Thermal power plant works on
 (a) conservation of heat  (a) Carnot cycle
 (b) conservation of work  (b) Joule cycle
 (c) conversion of heat into work  (d) Rankine cycle
 (d) conversion fo work into heat  (d) Otto cycle
 (e) conservation of mass.  (e) Brayton cycle.
Answer : c Answer : c
127. A perpetual motion machine is 131. Otto cycle consists of following
four processes
 (a) a thermodynamic machine
 (b) a non-thermodynamic machine  (a) two isothermals and two isentropics
 (c) a hypothetical machine  (b) two isentropics and two constant
volumes
 (d) a hypothetical machine whose
opera-tion would violate the laws of  (c) two isentropics, one constant
thermodynamics volume and one constant pressure
 (e) an inefficient machine.  (d) two isentropics and two constant
Answer : d pres-sures
 (e) none of the above.
128. According to Clausis statement Answer : b
of second law of thermodynamics
132. For same compression ratio and
 (a) heat can’t be transferred from low for same heat added
temperature source to high
temperature source  (a) Otto cycle is more efficient than
 (b) heat can be transferred for low Diesel cycle
temperature to high temperature  (b) Diesel cycle is more efficient than
source by using refrigeration cycle. Otto cycle
 (c) heat can be transferred from low  (c) efficiency depends on other factors
temperature to high temperature  (d) both Otto and Diesel cycles are
source if COP of process is more than equally efficient
unity
 (e) none of the above.
 (d) heat can’t be transferred from low
Answer : a
temperature to high temperature
source without the aid of external 133. The efficiency of a Carnot engine
energy depends on
 (e) all of the above.
 (a) working substance
Answer : d
 (b) design of engine
129. Which of the following is an  (c) size of engine
irreversible cycle  (d) type of fuel fired
 (a) carnot  (e) temperatures of source and sink.
 (b) Stirling Answer : e
 (c) ericsson

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134. The efficiency of Carnot cycle is  (c) Joule cycle

maximum for  (d) Stirling cycle
 (a) gas engine  (e) Atkinson cycle.
 (b) well lubricated engine Answer : c
 (c) petrol engine 139. Stirling and Ericsson cycles are
 (d) steam engine
 (a) reversible cycles
 (e) reversible engine.
 (b) irreversible cycles
Answer : e
 (c) quasi-static cycles
135. Diesel cycle consists of following  (d) semi-reversible cycles
four processes
 (e) adiabatic irreversible cycles.
 (a) two isothermals and two isentropics Answer : a
 (b) two isentropics, and two constant
140. Brayton cycle consists’ of
volumes.
following four processes
 (c) two isentropics, one constant
volume and one constant pressure  (a) two isothermals and two isentropics
 (d) two isentropics and two constant  (b) two isentropics and two constant
pressures volumes
 (e) none of the above.  (c) two isentropics, one constant
Answer : c volume and one constant pressure
 (d) two isentropics and two constant
136. Carnot cycle is pres-sures
 (a) a reversible cycle (ft) an irreversible  (e) none of the above.
cycle Answer : d
 (c) a semi-reversible cycle
141. Reversed joule cycle is called
 (d) a quasi static cycle
 (e) an adiabatic irreversible cycle.  (a) Carnot cycle
Answer : a  (b) Rankine cycle
 (c) Brayton cycle
137. If both Stirling and Carnot cycles
 (d) Bell Coleman cycle
operate within the same temperature
limits, then efficiency of Stirling cycle  (e) Dual cycle.
as compared to Carnot cycle Answer : c

 (a) more 142. Which of the following cycles is

 (b) less not a reversible cycle
 (c) equal  (a) Carnot
 (d) depends on other factors  (b) Ericsson
 (e) none of the above.  (c) Stirling
Answer : c  (d) Joule
138. A cycle consisting of two  (e) none of the above.
adiabatics and two constant pressure Answer : e
processes is known as
143. The efficiency of Diesei cycle with
 (a) Otto cycle decrease in cut off
 (b) Ericsson cycle  (a) increases

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 (b) decreases 148. The thermodynamic difference

 (c) remains unaffected between a Rankine cycle working with
saturated steam and the Carnot cycle
 (d) first increases and then decreases
is that
 (e) first decreases and then increases.
Answer : a  (a) carnot cycle can’t work with
saturated steam
144. The cycle in which heat is  (b) heat is supplied to water at
supplied at constant volume and temperature below the maximum
rejected at constant pressure is temperature of the cycle
known as
 (c) a rankine cycle receives heat at two
 (a) Dual combustion cycle places
 (b) Diesel cycle  (d) rankine cycle is hypothetical
 (c) Atkinson cycle  (e) none of the above.
 (d) Rankine cycle Answer : b
 (e) Stirling cycle. 149. The ideal efficiency of a Brayton
Answer : c cycle with regeneration, with increase
in pressure ratio will
145. Which of the following cycles has
maximum efficiency  (a) increase
 (a) Rankine  (b) decrease

 (b) Stirling  (c) remain unchanged

 (c) Carnot  (d) increase/decrease depending on

ap-plication
 (d) Brayton
 (e) unpredictable. “
 (e) Joule.
Answer : b
Answer : c
150. Gas turbine cycle consists of
146. The ideal efficiency of a Brayton
cycle without regeneration with  (a) two isothermals and two isentropics
increase ni pressure ratio will  (b) two isentropics and two constant
 (a) increase volumes
 (b) decrease  (c) two isentropics, one constant
volume and one constant pressure
 (c) remain unchanged
 (d) two isentropics and two constant
 (d) increase/decrease depending on
pressures
application
 (e) none of the above.
 (e) unpredictable.
Answer : d
Answer : a
147. The following cycle is used for air
craft refrigeration
Thermodynamics MCQ
 (a) Brayton cycle SET-1
 (b) Joule cycle
 (c) Carnot cycle
1. All the commercial liquid fuels are
 (d) Bell-Coleman cycle
derived from natural petroleum (or
 (e) Reversed-Brayton cycle. crude oil).
Answer : e
 [Link]

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 B. False 7. Water gas is obtained by passing air

Answer: A and a large amount of steam over
waste coal at about 650°C.
2. A cycle consisting of one constant
pressure, one constant volume and  [Link]
two isentropic processes is known as  [Link]
Answer: B
 [Link] cycle
 [Link] cycle 8. Which of the following represents
 [Link] cycle Otto cycle on temperature – entropy (T
– s) diagram?
 [Link] cycle
Answer: D
3. The efficiency and work ratio of a
simple gas turbine cycle are
 [Link]
 [Link] low
 [Link]
 [Link] high
Answer: B

4. The amount of heat required to raise

the temperature of the unit mass of
gas through one degree at constant
volume, is called
 [Link] heat at constant volume
 [Link] heat at constant pressure
 [Link] Joule 9. When the gas is heated at constant
volume, the heat supplied increases
 [Link] of these
the internal energy of the gas.
Answer: A
 [Link]
5. There is a loss of heat in an
 [Link]
irreversible process.
Answer: A
 [Link]
10. Which of the following is the
 [Link]
lightest and most volatile liquid fuel?
Answer: A
 [Link]
6. An adiabatic process is one in
 [Link]
which
 [Link] oil
 [Link] heat enters or leaves the gas Answer: A
 [Link] temperature of the gas changes
11. The processes occuring in open
 [Link] change in internal energy is
system which permit the transfer of
equal to the mechanical workdone
mass to and from the system, are
 [Link] of the above known as
Answer: D
 [Link] processes

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 [Link]-flow processes
 [Link] processes
 [Link] of these
Answer: A
12. Which of the following has the
minimum atomic mass?
 [Link]
 [Link]
 [Link]
 [Link]
Answer: D
Answer: B
13. Workdone in a free expansion
process is
17. The efficiency of Diesel cycle
 [Link] approaches to Otto cycle efficiency
 [Link] when
 [Link]
 A. cut-off is increased
 [Link]
 B. cut-off is decreased
Answer: A
 C. cut-off is zero
14. The pressure exerted by an ideal  D. cut-off is constant
gas is __________ of the kinetic Answer: C
energy of all the molecules contained
in a unit volume of gas.
[Link] entropy __________ in an
 [Link]-half irreversible cyclic process.
 [Link]-third
 A. remains constant
 [Link]-third
 [Link]-fourth  B. decreases

Answer: C  C. increases
Answer: C
15. The compression ratio for petrol
engines is
19. The atomic mass of oxygen is
 A.3 to 6
 B.5 to 8  A. 12
 B. 14
 C.15 to 20
 C. 16
 D.20 to 30
Answer: B  D. 32
Answer: C

16. The most probable velocity of the

gas molecules is given by 20. The ratio of specific heat at
constant pressure (Cp) and specific
heat at constant volume (cv) is
 A. equal to one
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 C. greater than one

 D. none of these
 A. constant volume process
Answer: C
 B. adiabatic process
 C. constant pressure process
 D. isothermal process
Thermodynamics MCQ Answer: C
SET-2
26. The value of specific heat at
21. Carbonisation of coal consists of constant pressure (cp) is __________
that of at constant volume (cv).
 A. drying and crushing the coal to a
fine powder  A. less than
 B. moulding the finely ground coal  B. equal to
under pressure with or without a  C. more than
binding material Answer: C
 C. heating the wood with a limited
supply of air to temperature not less
27. When coal is strongly heated
than 280°C
continuously for 42 to 48 hours in the
 D. none of the above absence of air in a closed vessel,
Answer: D the process is known as __________
of fuel.
22. The efficiency of Stirling cycle is  A. atomisation
__________ Carnot cycle.  B. carbonisation
 A. greater than Answer: B
 B. less than
 C. equal to 28. Which of the following is correct?
Answer: C
 A. Absolute pressure = Gauge
pressure + Atmospheric pressure
23. According to Gay-Lussac law for a  B. Gauge pressure = Absolute
perfect gas, p/T = constant, if v is kept pressure + Atmospheric pressure
constant.  C. Atmospheric pressure = Absolute
 A. True pressure + Gauge pressure
 B. False  D. Absolute pressure = Gauge
pressure – Atmospheric pressure
Answer: A
Answer: A

24. There is no change in internal

energy in an isothermal process. 29. The distillation carried out in such
a way that the liquid with the lowest
 A. Correct boiling point is first evaporated
 B. Incorrect and recondensed, then the liquid with
the next higher boiling point is then
Answer: A
evaporated and recondensed, and so
on until all the available liquid fuels
25. If the value of n = 0 in the equation are separately recovered in the
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sequence of their boiling points. Such Answer: A

a process is called
 A. cracking 34. The efficiency of Diesel cycle
 B. carbonisation increases with
 C. fractional distillation  A. decrease in cut-off
 D. full distillation  B. increase in cut-off
Answer: C  C. constant cut-off
 D. none of these
30. Which of the following statement is Answer: A
incorrect?
 A. The liquid fuels consist of 35. Coal gas is obtained by mixing
hydrocarbons. coal and gas at ambient conditions.
 B. The liquid fuels have higher calorific
 A. Yes
value than solid fuels.
 B. No
 C. The solid fuels have higher calorific
value than liquid fuels. Answer: B
 D. A good fuel should have low ignition
point. 36. According to Avogadro’s law, the
Answer: C density of any two gases is
__________ their molecular masses, if
the gases are at the same temperature
31. Which of the following gas is and pressure.
mostly used in town for street and
domestic lighting and heating?  A. equal to
 B. directly proportional to
 A. Producer gas
 C. inversely proportional to
 B. Coal gas
Answer: B
 C. Mond gas
 D. Coke oven gas
Answer: B 37. The kinetic energy of molecules of
a gas becomes zero at absolute zero
temperature.
32. The value of gas constant (R) in S.
I. units is  A. Agree
 B. Disagree
 A. 0.287 J/kgK Answer: A
 B. 2.87 J/kgK
 C. 28.7 J/kgK
38. One kg of carbon monoxide
 D. 287 J/kgK
requires __________ kg of oxygen to
Answer: D produce 11/7 kg of carbon dioxide
gas.
33. In the first law of thermodynamics,  A. All
the total energy of the system remains
 B. 4/7
constant.
 C. 11/4
 A. True  D. 9/7
 B. False Answer: B

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Answer: A
39. The absolute zero temperature is
taken as
44. A series of operations, which takes
 A. -273°C place in a certain order and restore the
 B. 273°C initial conditions at the end, is known
as
 C. 237°C
 D. -237°C  A. reversible cycle
Answer: A  B. irreversible cycle
 C. thermodynamic cycle
40. The specific heat of water is  D. none of these
Answer: C
 A. 1.817
 B. 2512
45. An isothermal process is governed
 C. 4.187
by
 D. none of these
Answer: C  A. Boyle’s law
 B. Charles’ law
 C. Gay-Lussac law

Thermodynamics MCQ  D. Avogadro’s law

Answer: A
SET-3
46. The sum of internal energy (U) and
41. The constant pressure, constant the product of pressure and volume
volume and constant pvn processes (p.v) is known as
are regarded as irreversible process.
 A. workdone
 A. True  B. entropy
 B. False  C. enthalpy
Answer: A  D. none of these
Answer: C
42. Stirling and Ericsson cycles are
 A. reversible cycles 47. The value of 1 mm of Hg is equal to
 B. irreversible cycles  A. 1.333 N/m2
 C. semi-reversible cycles  B. 13.33 N/m2
 D. quasi-static cycles  C. 133.3 N/m2
Answer: A  D. 1333 N/m2
Answer: C
43. When cut-off ratio is __________
the efficiency of Diesel cycle 48. One kg of carbon requires 4/3 kg of
approaches to Otto cycle efficiency. oxygen and produces __________ kg
 A. zero of carbon monoxide gas.
 B. 1/5  A. 8/3
 C. 4/5  B. 11/3
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 C. 11/7 absolute temperature, when the

 D. 7/3 volume remains constant.
Answer: D  A. directly
 B. indirectly
49. The behaviour of a perfect gas, Answer: A
undergoing any change in the
variables which control physical
properties, is governed by 53. According to Avogadro’s law

 A. Boyle’s law  A. the product of the gas constant and

the molecular mass of an ideal gas is
 B. Charles’ law
constant
 C. Gay-Lussac law
 B. the sum of partial pressure of the
 D. all of these mixture of two gases is sum of the two
Answer: D  C. equal volumes of all gases, at the
same temperature and pressure,
50. The universal gas constant of a contain equal number of molecules
gas is the product of molecular mass  D. all of the above
of the gas and the gas constant. Answer: C
 A. Correct
 B. Incorrect 54. A process, in which the
temperature of the working substance
Answer: A
remains constant during its
expansion or compression, is called
 A. isothermal process
51. According to Kelvin-Planck’s
statement of second law of  B. hyperbolic process
thermodynamics,  C. adiabatic process
 D. polytropic process
 A. it is impossible to construct an
engine working on a cyclic process, Answer: A
whose sole purpose is to convert heat
energy into work 55. Which of the following gas has a
 B. it is possible to construct an engine minimum molecular mass?
working on a cyclic process, whose
sole purpose is to convert heat  A. Oxygen
energy into work  B. Nitrogen
 C. it is impossible to construct a device  C. Hydrogen
which operates in a cyclic process and  D. Methane
produces no effect other than
the transfer of heat from a cold body to Answer: C
a hot body
 D. none of the above 56. The total energy of a molecule is
Answer: A shared equally by the various degrees
of freedom possessed by it. This law
is known as
52. According to Gay-Lussac law, the
absolute pressure of a given mass of  A. law of equipartition of energy
a perfect gas varies __________ as its  B. law of conservation of energy
 C. law of degradation of energy

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 D. none of these 61. The hyperbolic process is

Answer: A governed by
 A. Boyle’s law
57. The thermodynamic property of a  B. Charles’ law
system is said to be an intensive  C. Gay-Lussac law
property whose value for the entire
 D. Avogadro’s law
system __________ the sum of their
value for the individual parts of the Answer: A
system.
 A. is equal to 62. A closed system is one in which
heat and work crosses the boundary
 B. is not equal to
of the system but the mass of the
Answer: B working substance does not crosses
the boundary of the system.
58. The absolute pressure of a given  A. Yes
mass of a perfect gas varies inversely
 B. No
as its volume, when the
temperature remains constant. This Answer: A
statement is known as Charles’ law.
 A. Yes 63. The entropy of water at 0°C is
assumed to be
 B. No
Answer: B  A. 1
 B. 0
59. The fuel mostly used in steam  C. -1
boilers is  D. 10
Answer: B
 A. brown coal
 B. peat 64. The greater the pressure
 C. coking bituminous coal difference in throttling, the lesser is
the irreversibility.
 D. non-coking bituminous coal
Answer: D  A. Yes
 B. No

60. The efficiency of Joule cycle is Answer: B

 A. greater than Carnot cycle

65. During which of the following
 B. less than Carnot cycle
process does heat rejection takes
 C. equal to Carnot cycle place in Carnot cycle?
 D. none of these
 A. Isothermal expansion
Answer: B
 B. Isentropic expansion
 C. Isothermal compression
 D. Isentropic compression
Thermodynamics MCQ Answer: C
SET-4
66. Which is the incorrect statement
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 A. It is used as the alternate standard through one degree, at constant

of comparison of all heat engines. volume
 B. All the heat engines are based on  C. the amount of heat required to raise
Carnot cycle. the temperature of 1 kg of water
 C. It provides concept of maximising through one degree
work output between the two  D. any one of the above
temperature limits. Answer: B
 D. all of the above
Answer: B
71. One kg of carbon produces
__________ kg of carbon dioxide.
67. When two bodies are in thermal
 A. 3/7
equilibrium with a third body, they are
also in thermal equilibrium with each  B. 7/3
other. This statement is called  C. 11/3
 D. 3/11
 A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
Answer: C
 B. First law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of thermodynamics
 D. Kelvin Planck’s law 72. Ericsson cycle consists of two
constant pressure and two isothermal
Answer: A
processes.
 A. Agree
68. The area under the temperature-
entropy curve (T – s curve) of any  B. Disagree
thermodynamic process represents Answer: A

 A. heat absorbed
 B. heat rejected 73. The isothermal and isentropic
processes are reversible non-flow
 C. either (a) or (b)
processes.
 D. none of these
Answer: C  A. Agree
 B. Disagree
Answer: A
69. The free expansion process is a
constant enthalpy process.
74. The blast furnace gas is a by-
 A. Correct product in the production of pig iron
 B. Incorrect in the blast furnace.
Answer: A
 A. Yes
 B. No
70. The specific heat at constant
Answer: A
volume is
 A. the amount of heat required to raise 75. The heat supplied to the gaS at
the temperature of unit mass of gas constant volume is (where m = Mass
through one degree, at constant
of gas, cv = Specific heat at constant
pressure
volume, cp = Specific heat at constant
 B. the amount of heat required to raise pressure, T2 – T1 = Rise in
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 A. mR(T2 – T1)
 B. mcv(T2 – T1)
 C. mcp(T2 – T1)
 D. mcp(T2 + T1)
Answer: B

76. Liquid fuels have lower efficiency

than solid fuels.
 A. True
 B. False
Answer: B 80. The dual combustion cycle
consists of one constant pressure,
77. The heat absorbed during a two constant volume and two
polytropic process is isentropic processes.
 A. Agree
 B. Disagree
Answer: A

Thermodynamics MCQ
SET-5

81. The general gas energy equation

is (where Q1 – 2 = Heat supplied, dU =
78. Liquid fuels consist of Change in internal energy, and W1 – 2
hydrocarbons. = Work done in heat units)

 A. True
 B. False
Answer: A

79. The expansion ratio (r) is the ratio

of (where v1 = Volume at the
beginning of expansion, and v2 =
Volume at the end of expansion) Answer: A
82. The compression ratio for Diesel
engines is
 A. 3 to 6
 B. 5 to 8
 C. 15 to 20
 D. 20 to 30
Answer: C

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83. In an isothermal process,  A. Yes

 B. No
 A. there is no change in temperature
Answer: A
 B. there is no change in enthalpy
 C. there is no change in internal
energy 88. The free expansion process is
 D. all of these __________ non-flow process.
Answer: D  A. reversible
 B. irreversible
84. Which of the following is the Answer: B
correct statement of the second law of
thermodynamics? 89. A mixture of gas expands from
0.03 m3 to 0.06 m3 at a constant
 A. It is impossible to construct an pressure of 1 MPa and absorbs 84 kJ
engine working on a cyclic process, of heat during the process. The
whose sole purpose is to convert heat change in internal energy of the
energy into work. mixture is
 B. It is impossible to transfer heat from
 A. 30 kJ
a body at a lower temperature to a
higher temperature, without the aid of  B. 54 kJ
an external source.  C. 84 kJ
 C. There is a definite amount of  D. 114 kJ
mechanical energy, which can be 90. The gas constant (R) is equal to
obtained from a given quantity of heat the __________ of two specific heats.
energy.
 A. sum
 D. all of the above
 B. difference
Answer: D
 C. product
85. The heating and expanding of a  D. ratio
gas is called thermodynamic system.
Answer: B
 A. Yes
91. Hydrogen is the __________
 B. No substance.
Answer: B
A. lightest
86. Otto cycle efficiency is higher
than Diesel cycle efficiency for the B. heaviest
same compression ratio and heat
Answer: A
input because in Otto cycle
 A. combustion is at constant volume
92. Otto cycle is also known as
 B. expansion and compression are
isentropic  A. constant pressure cycle
 C. maximum temperature is higher  B. constant volume cycle
 D. heat rejection is lower  C. constant temperature cycle
Answer: D  D. constant temperature and pressure
cycle
Answer: B
87. Liquid fuels have higher calorific
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93. For a perfect gas, according to  D. molecules

Boyle’s law (where p = Absolute Answer: A
pressure, v = Volume, and T =
Absolute temperature)
98. The measurement of a
 A. p v = constant, if T is kept constant thermodynamic property known as
 B. v/T = constant, if p is kept constant temperature is based on
 C. p/T = constant, if v is kept constant
 A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
 D. T/p = constant, if v is kept constant
 B. First law of thermodynamics
Answer: A
 C. Second law of thermodynamics
 D. none of these
94. Producer gas is obtained by Answer: A
 A. partial combustion of coal, coke, 99. Kelvin-Planck’s law deals with
anthracite coal or charcoal in a mixed
air steam blast  A. conservation of work
 B. carbonisation of bituminous coal  B. conservation of heat
 C. passing steam over incandescent  C. conversion of heat into work
coke  D. conversion of work into heat
 D. passing air and a large amount of Answer: C
steam over waste coal at about 650°C
Answer: A

95. The efficiency of a dual

combustion cycle __________ upon
cut-off ratio.
 A. depends
 B. does not depend
Answer: A

96. The efficiency of Diesel cycle

depends upon
 A. temperature limits
 B. pressure ratio
 C. compression ratio
 D. cut-off ratio and compression ratio
Answer: D
97. Those substances which have so
far not been resolved by any means
into other substances of simpler form
are called
 A. elements
 B. compounds
 C. atoms

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MCQs Part I based on the average behavior of large

groups of individual particles?
1. The term “thermodynamics” comes
from Greek  A. Dynamic thermodynamics
words “therme” and “dynamis” which  B. Static thermodynamics
means _______.  C. Statistical thermodynamics
 D. Classical thermodynamics
 A. Heat power
 B. Heat transfer 7. What is defined a region in space
 C. Heat energy chosen for study?
 D. Heat motion
 A. Surroundings
2. The term “thermodynamics” was first  B. System
used in 1849 in the publication of a  C. Boundary
 D. Volume
 A. Rudolph Clausius
 B. William Rankine 8. The first law of thermodynamics is
 C. Lord Kelvin based on which of the following
 D. Thomas Savery principles?

3. What law asserts that energy is a  A. Conservation of mass

thermodynamic property?  B. Conservation of energy
 C. Action and reaction
 A. First law of Thermodynamics  D. The entropy-temperature
 B. Second law of relationship
Thermodynamics
 C. Third law of Thermodynamics 9. What is the mass or region outside
 D. Zeroth law of the system called?
Thermodynamics
 A. Surroundings
4. What law asserts that energy has  B. Boundary
quality as well as quantity?  C. Volume
 D. Environment
 A. First law of Thermodynamics
 B. Second law of 10. What is the real or imaginary surface
Thermodynamics that separates the system from its
 C. Third law of Thermodynamics surroundings?
 D. Zeroth law of
Thermodynamics  A. Division
 B. Wall
5. The macroscopic approach to the  C. Boundary
study of thermodynamics does not  D. Interface
require a knowledge of the behavior of
individual particles is called _____. 11. A system which consists of fixed
amount of mass and no mass can cross
 A. Dynamic thermodynamics its boundary called _____.
 B. Static thermodynamics
 C. Statistical thermodynamics  A. Equilibrium system
 D. Classical thermodynamics  B. Thermal equilibrium system
 C. Open system
6. What is the more elaborate approach  D. Closed system
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12. A system in which even energy is 18. The thermodynamic properties that
not allowed to cross the boundary is are independent on the size of the
called ____. system is called _____.

 A. Closed system  A. Extensive property

 B. Exclusive system  B. Intensive property
 C. Isolated system  C. Open property
 D. Special system  D. Closed property

13. A system in which there is a flow of 19. The thermodynamic properties that
mass is known as _____. are dependent on the size or extent of
the system is called _____.
 A. Equilibrium system
 B. Isolated system  A. Extensive property
 C. Open system  B. Intensive property
 D. Closed system  C. Open property
 D. Closed property
14. Open system usually encloses which
of the following devices? 20. Which is NOT an intensive property
of thermodynamics?
 A. Compressor
 B. Turbine  A. Temperature
 C. Nozzle  B. Mass
 D. All of the above  C. Pressure
 D. Density
15. The boundaries of a control volume,
which may either real or imaginary is 21. Which is NOT an extensive property
called _____. of thermodynamics?

 A. Control boundary  A. Density

 B. Control system  B. Mass
 C. Interface  C. Volume
 D. Control surface  D. Energy

16. Any characteristic of a 22. Extensive properties per unit mass

thermodynamics system is called a are called _____.
_____.
 A. Specific properties
 A. Property  B. Relative properties
 B. Process  C. Unit properties
 C. Phase  D. Phase properties
 D. Cycle
23. A system is in ______ equilibrium if
17. How are thermodynamic properties the temperature is the same throughout
classified? the entire system.

 A. Physical and chemical  A. Static

 B. Intensive and extensive  B. Thermal
 C. Real and imaginary  C. Mechanical
 D. Homogeneous and  D. Phase
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24. A system is in ______ equilibrium if  A. Simple

there is no change in pressure at any  B. Simple compressible
point of the system with time.  C. Compressible
 D. Independent
 A. Pressure
 B. Thermal 30. What refers to any change that a
 C. Mechanical system undergoes from one equilibrium
 D. Phase state to another equilibrium state?

25. If a system involves two phases, it is  A. Process

in ______ equilibrium when the mass of  B. Path
each phase reaches an equilibrium level  C. Phase
and stays there.  D. Cycle

 A. Chemical 31. What refers to the series of state

 B. Thermal through which a system passes during a
 C. Mechanical process?
 D. Phase
 A. Path
26. A system is in ______ equilibrium of  B. Phase
its chemical composition does not  C. Cycle
change with time, i.e., no chemical  D. Direction
reaction occurs.
32. How many independent properties
 A. Chemical are required to completely fix the
 B. Thermal equilibrium state of a pure gaseous
 C. Mechanical compound?
 D. Phase
 A. 4
27. “The state of a simple compressible  B. 3
system is completely specified by two  C. 2
independent, intensive properties”. This  D. 1
is known as ______.
33. What is a process in which the
 A. Equilibrium postulate system remains infinitesimally closed to
 B. State postulate an equilibrium state at all times?
 C. Environment postulate
 D. Compressible system  A. Path equilibrium process
postulate  B. Cycle equilibrium process
 C. Phase equilibrium process
28. What is the unit of the total energy of  D. Quasi-state or quasi-
the system? equilibrium process

 A. Kj 34. A closed system may refer to

 B. Kj/Kg ______.
 C. Kg
 D. g  A. Control mass
 B. Control volume
29. Without electrical, mechanical,  C. Control energy
gravitational, surface tension and motion  D. Control temperature
effects, a system is called _____
system.

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35. An open system may refer to 41. The prefix “iso” used to designate a
______. process means ______.

 A. Control mass  A. Cannot be interchanged

 B. Control volume  B. Remains constant
 C. Control energy  C. Approximately equal
 D. Control temperature  D. Slight difference

36. A system is said to be in 42. What does the term “steady”

thermodynamic equilibrium if it implies?
maintains ______ equilibrium.
 A. No change with volume
 A. Mechanical and phase  B. No change with time
 B. Thermal and chemical  C. No change with location
 C. Thermal, mechanical and  D. No change with mass
chemical
 D. Thermal, phase, mechanical 43. What does the tem “uniform”
and chemical implies?

37. What is a process with identical end  A. No change with volume

states called?  B. No change with time
 C. No change with location
 A. Cycle  D. No change with mass
 B. Path
 C. Phase 44. What is defined as a process during
 D. Either path or phase which a fluid flows through a control
volume steadily?
38. What is a process during which the
temperature remains constant?  A. Transient-flow process
 B. Steady and uniform process
 A. Isobaric process  C. Uniform-flow process
 B. Isothermal process  D. Steady-flow process
 C. Isochoric process
 D. Isometric process 45. The sum of all the microscopic form
of energy is called _____.
39. What is a process during which the
pressure remains constant?  A. Total energy
 B. Internal energy
 A. Isobaric process  C. System energy
 B. Isothermal process  D. Phase energy
 C. Isochoric process
 D. Isometric process 46. What type of system energy is
related to the molecular structure of a
40. What is a process during which the system?
specific volume remains constant?
 A. Macroscopic form of energy
 A. Isobaric process  B. Microscopic form of energy
 B. Isothermal process  C. Internal energy
 C. Isochoric or isometric process  D. External energy
 D. Isovolumetric process
47. What form of energy refers to those
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respect to some outside reference  A. Translational energy

frame, such as potential and kinetic  B. Spin energy
energies?  C. Rotational kinetic energy
 D. Sensible energy
 A. Macroscopic form of energy
 B. Microscopic form of energy 53. What is the internal energy
 C. Internal energy associated with the phase of a system
 D. External energy called?

48. Who coined the word “energy” in  A. Chemical energy

1807?  B. Latent energy
 C. Phase energy
 A. William Rankine  D. Thermal energy
 B. Rudolph Clausius
 C. Lord Kelvin 54. What is the internal energy
 D. Thomas Young associated with the atomic bonds in a
molecule called?
49. The molecules of a gas moving
through space with some velocity  A. Chemical energy
possesses what kind of energy?  B. Latent energy
 C. Phase energy
 A. Translational energy  D. State energy
 B. Spin energy
 C. Rotational kinetic energy 55. What is the extremely large amount
 D. Sensible energy of energy associated with the strong
bonds within the nucleus of the atom
50. The electrons in an atom which itself called?
rotate about the nucleus possess what
kind of energy?  A. Chemical energy
 B. Latent energy
 A. Translational energy  C. Phase energy
 B. Spin energy  D. Nuclear energy
 C. Rotational kinetic energy
 D. Sensible energy 56. What are the only two forms of
energy interactions associated with a
closed system?


MCQs Part II 
A. Kinetic energy and heat
B. Heat transfer and work
51. The electrons which spins about its  C. Thermal energy and chemical
axis will possess what kind of energy? energy
 D. Latent energy and thermal
 A. Translational energy energy
 B. Spin energy
 C. Rotational kinetic energy 57. What states that if two bodies are in
 D. Sensible energy thermal equilibrium with a third body,
they are also in equilibrium with each
52. What refers to the portion of the other?
internal energy of a system associated
with the kinetic energies of the  A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
molecules?  B. First law of thermodynamics

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 C. Second law of 63. What refers to the strong repulsion

thermodynamics between the positively charged nuclei
 D. Third law of thermodynamics which makes fusion reaction difficult to
attain?
58. Who formulated the zeroth law of
thermodynamics in 1931?  A. Atomic repulsion
 B. Nuclear repulsion
 A. A. Celsuis  C. Coulomb repulsion
 B. A. Einstein  D. Charge repulsion
 C. R.H. Fowler
 D. G. Fahrenheit 64. What gas thermometer is based on
the principle that at low pressure, the
59. What is the thermodynamic temperature of a gas is proportional to
temperature scale in the SI system? its pressure at constant volume?

 A. Kelvin scale  A. Constant-pressure gas

 B. Celsius scale thermometer
 C. Fahrenheit scale  B. Isobaric gas thermometer
 D. Rankine scale  C. Isometric gas thermometer
 D. Constant-volume gas
60. What is the thermodynamic thermometer
temperature scale in the English
system? 65. What is the state at which all three
phases of water coexist in equilibrium?
 A. Kelvin scale
 B. Celsius scale  A. Tripoint of water
 C. Fahrenheit scale  B. Triple point of water
 D. Rankine scale  C. Triple phase point of water
 D. Phase point of water
61. What temperature scale is identical
to the Kelvin scale? 66. What is defined as the force per unit
area?
 A. Ideal gas temperature scale
 B. Ideal temperature scale  A. Pressure
 C. Absolute gas temperature  B. Energy
scale  C. Work
 D. Triple point temperature scale  D. Power

62. The temperatures of the ideal gas 67. The unit “pascal” is equivalent to
temperature scale are measured by ______.
using a ______.
 A. N/m^2
 A. Constant-volume gas  B. N/m
thermometer  C. N-m
 B. Constant-mass gas  D. N-m^2
thermometer
 C. Constant-temperature gas 68. Which of the following is NOT a
thermometer value of the standard atmospheric
 D. Constant-pressure gas pressure?
thermometer
 A. 1 bar
 B. 1 atm

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 C. 1 kgf/cm^2 75. Which of the following is NOT an

 D. 14.223 psi instrument used to measure pressure?

69. What is the SI unit of pressure?  A. Bourdon tube

 B. Pitot tube
 A. Atm  C. Aneroid
 B. Bar  D. Manometer
 C. Pa
 D. Psi 76. What instrument is used to measure
atmospheric pressure?
70. 1 bar is equivalent to how many
pascals?  A. Pitot tube
 B. Wind vane
 A. 10^3  C. Barometer
 B. 10^4  D. Manometer
 C. 10^5
 D. 10^6 77. Another unit used to measure
atmospheric pressure is the “torr”. This
71. 1 atm is equivalent to how many is named after the Italian physicist,
pascals? Evangelista Torrecelli. An average
atmospheric pressure is how many torr?
 A. 101,325
 B. 101,689  A. 740
 C. 101,102  B. 750
 D. 101,812  C. 760
 D. 770
72. What is considered as the actual
pressure at a given position and is 78. What states that for a confined fluid,
measured relative to absolute vacuum? the pressure at a point has the same
magnitude in all directions?
 A. Gage pressure
 B. Absolute pressure  A. Avogadro’s Law
 C. Atmospheric pressure  B. Amagat Law
 D. Vacuum pressure  C. Pascal’s Law
 D. Bernoulli’s Theorem
73. What is the pressure below
atmospheric pressure called? 79. What pressure measuring device
consists of a coiled hollow tube that
 A. Gage pressure tends to straighten out when the tube is
 B. Absolute pressure subjected to an internal pressure?
 C. Atmospheric pressure
 D. Vacuum pressure  A. Aneroid
 B. Manometer
74. The difference between the absolute  C. Bourdon pressure gage
pressure and the atmospheric pressure  D. Barometer
is called the _____ pressure.
80. What is an energy that can be
 A. Gage transferred from one object to another
 B. Normal causing a change in temperature of
 C. Standard each object?
 D. Vacuum
 A. Power

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 B. Heat transfer 87. What is considered as the heat

 C. Heat content of a system?
 D. Work
 A. Enthalpy
81. What is the SI unit of energy?  B. Entropy
 C. Internal heat
 A. Newton  D. Molar heat
 B. Btu
 C. Calorie 88. What refers to the amount of heat
 D. Joule needed to raise the temperature of an
object by one degree Celsius or 1K?
82. One joule is equivalent to one
_____.  A. Heat capacity
 B. Specific heat
 A. Kg ∙ m/ s^2  C. Latent heat
 B. Kg ∙ m^2/s^2  D. Molar heat
 C. Kg ∙ m^2/s
 D. Kg ∙ m/s 89. What is the heat capacity of one
mole of substance?
83. One calorie is equivalent to how
many joules?  A. Molecular heat
 B. Specific heat
 A. 4.448  C. Latent heat
 B. 4.184  D. Molar heat
 C. 4.418
 D. 4.814 90. What is the heat capacity of one
gram of a substance?
84. One erg is equivalent to how many
joules?  A. Molecular heat
 B. Specific heat
 A. 10^-8  C. Latent heat
 B. 10^-7  D. Molar heat
 C. 10^-6
 D. 10^-5 91. “The enthalpy change for any
chemical reaction is independent of the
85. The first law of thermodynamics is intermediate stages, provided the initial
the: and final conditions are the same for
each route.” This statement is known as:
 A. Law of conservation of
momentum  A. Dulong’s Law
 B. Law of conservation of mass  B. Dalton’s Law
 C. Law of conservation of power  C. Hess’s Law
 D. Law of conservation of energy  D. Petit Law

86. What is the study of energy and its 92. What refers to the measure of the
transformations? disorder present in a given substance or
system?
 A. Thermostatics
 B. Thermophysics  A. Enthalpy
 C. Thermochemistry  B. Entropy
 D. Thermodynamics  C. Heat capacity
 D. Molar heat

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93. Entropy is measured in ______.  A. Monoatomic

 B. Heterogeneous
 A. Joule/Kelvin  C. Homogeneous
 B. Joule-Meter/Kelvin  D. Pure
 C. Meter/Kelvin
 D. Newton/Kelvin 100. What refers to the temperature at
which a pure substance changes phase
94. What is the energy absorbed during at a given pressure?
chemical reaction under constant
volume conditions?  A. Equilibrium temperature
 B. Saturation temperature
 A. Entropy  C. Superheated temperature
 B. Ion exchange  D. Subcooled temperature
 C. Enthalpy
 D. Enthalpy of reaction

95. When water exists in the liquid

phase and is not about to vaporize, it is MCQs Part III
considered as _____liquid. 101. What refers to the pressure at
which a pure substance changes phase
 A. Saturated at a given temperature?
 B. Compressed or subcooled
 C. Superheated  A. Equilibrium pressure
 D. Unsaturated  B. Saturation pressure
 C. Superheated pressure
96. A liquid that is about to vaporize is  D. Subcooled pressure
called ______ liquid.
102. What is the amount of heat needed
 A. Saturated to turn 1 kg of the substance at its
 B. Compressed or subcooled melting point from the solid to liquid
 C. Superheated state?
 D. Unsaturated
 A. Heat of fusion
97. A vapor that is about to condense is  B. Heat of vaporation
called ______ vapor.  C. Heat of condensation
 D. Heat of fission
 A. Saturated
 B. Compressed or subcooled 103. What is the amount of heat needed
 C. Superheated to turn 1kg of the substance at its boiling
 D. Unsaturated point from the liquid to the gaseous
state?
98. A vapor that is not about to
condense is called _____ vapor.  A. Heat of fusion
 B. Heat of vaporation
 A. Saturated  C. Heat of condensation
 B. Compressed or subcooled  D. Heat of fission
 C. Superheated
 D. Unsaturated 104. What refers to the amount of
energy absorbed or released during a
99. A substance that has a fixed phase-change process?
chemical composition is known as
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 A. Molar heat  A. Calorie

 B. Latent heat  B. Joule
 C. Vaporization heat  C. BTU
 D. Condensation heat  D. Kilocalorie

105. What is the latent heat of fusion of 111. 1 British thermal unit (BTU) is
water at 1 atm? equivalent to how many joules?

 A. 331.1 kJ/kg  A. 1016

 B. 332.6 kJ/kg  B. 1043
 C. 333.7 kJ/kg  C. 1023
 D. 330.7 kJ/kg  D. 1054

106. What is the latent heat of 112. The term “enthalpy” comes from
vaporization of water at 1 atm? Greek “enthalpen” which means
______.
 A. 2314.8 kJ/kg
 B. 2257.1 kJ/kg  A. Warm
 C. 2511.7 kJ/kg  B. Hot
 D. 2429.8 kJ/kg  C. Heat
 D. Cold
107. What refers to the point at which
the saturated liquid and saturated vapor 113. The ratio of the mass of vapor to
states are the same or identical? the total mass of the mixture is called
______.
 A. Triple point
 B. Inflection point  A. Vapor ratio
 C. Maximum point  B. Vapor content
 D. Critical point  C. Vapor index
 D. Quality
108. What is defined as the direct
conversion of a substance from the solid 114. The “equation of state” refers to
to the vapor state or vice versa without any equation that relates the ______ of
passing the liquid state? the substance.

 A. Condensation  A. Pressure and temperature

 B. Vaporization  B. Pressure, temperature and
 C. Sublimation specific weight
 D. Cryogenation  C. Temperature and specific
weight
109. The amount of heat required to  D. Pressure, temperature and
raise the temperature of 1kg of water specific volume
through 1 °C is called ______.
115. In the equation Pv = RT, the
 A. Calorie constant of proportionality R is known as
 B. Joule ______.
 C. BTU
 D. Kilocalorie  A. Universal gas constant
 B. Gas constant
110. The amount of heat required to  C. Ideal gas factor
raise the temperature of 1 pound of  D. Gas index
water by 1°F is called ______.

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116. The gas constant of a certain gas is  A. 4581

the ratio of:  B. 4185
 C. 4518
 A. Universal gas constant to  D. 4815
molar mass
 B. Universal gas constant to 122. What is the SI unit of specific heat
atomic weight capacity?
 C. Universal gas constant to
atomic number  A. J/kg
 D. Universal gas constant to  B. J/kg∙ °F
number of moles  C. J/kg∙ °C
 D. J/°C
117. What is the value of the universal
gas constant in kJ/kmol ∙ K? 123. What is constant for a substance
that is considered “incompressible”?
 A. 10.73
 B. 1.986  A. Specific volume of density
 C. 8.314  B. Pressure
 D. 1545  C. Temperature
 D. All of the above
118. The mass of one mole of a
substance in grams is known as 124. If there is no heat transferred
______. during the process, it is called a ______
process.
 A. Molar weight
 B. Molar mass  A. Static
 C. Molar volume  B. Isobaric
 D. Molar constant  C. Polytropic
 D. Adiabatic
119. What is defined as the energy
required to raise the temperature of a 125. The term “adiabatic” comes from
unit mass of a substance by one Greek “adiabatos” which means ______.
degree?
 A. No heat
 A. Latent heat of fusion  B. No transfer
 B. Molar heat  C. Not to be passed
 C. Specific heat capacity  D. No transformation
 D. Specific heat
126. How is heat transferred?
120. The ______ of a substance is the
amount of heat that must be added or  A. By conduction
removed from a unit mass of the  B. By convection
substance to change its temperature by  C. By radiation
one degree.  D. All of the above

 A. Latent heat of fusion 127. What refers to the transfer of

 B. Molar heat energy due to the emission of
 C. Specific heat capacity electromagnetic waves or photons?
 D. Specific heat
 A. Conduction
121. What is the specific heat capacity  B. Convection
of water in J/kg ∙°C?  C. Radiation

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 D. Electrification  A. Adiabatic heat transfer is not

equal to zero; isentropic heat
128. What refers to the transfer of transfer is zero
energy between a solid surface and the  B. Both heat transfer = 0;
adjacent fluid that is in motion? isentropic: reversible
 C. Adiabatic heat transfer = 0;
 A. Conduction isentropic: heat transfer is not
 B. Convection equal to zero
 C. Radiation  D. Both heat transfer is not equal
 D. Electrification to zero; isentropic: irreversible

129. What refers to the transfer of 133. Which of the following is the Ideal
energy from the more energetic particles gas law (equation)?
of a substance to the adjacent less
energetic ones as a result of interaction  A. V/T = K
between particles?  B. V= k*(1/P)
 C. P1/T1 = P2/T2
 A. Conduction  D. PV = nRT
 B. Convection
 C. Radiation 134. What is a measure of the ability of
 D. Electrification a material to conduct heat?

130. What states that the net mass  A. Specific heat capacity
transfer to or from a system during a  B. Coefficient of thermal
process is equal to the net change in the expansion
total mass of the system during that  C. Coefficient of thermal
process? conductivity
 D. Thermal conductivity
 A. Third law of thermodynamics
 B. Conservation of energy 135. What refers to the heating of the
principle earth’s atmosphere not caused by direct
 C. Second law of thermodynamic sunlight but by infrared light radiated by
 D. Conservation of mass the surface and absorbed mainly by
principle atmospheric carbon dioxide?

131. Which of the following statements  A. Greenhouse effect

is TRUE for an ideal gas, but not for a  B. Global warming
real gas?  C. Thermal rise effect
 D. Ozone effect
 A. PV = nRT
 B. An increase in temperature 136. What is a form of mechanical work
causes an increase in the kinetic which is related with the expansion and
energy of the gas compression of substances?
 C. The total volume of molecules
on a gas is nearly the same as  A. Boundary work
the volume of the gas as a whole  B. Thermodynamic work
 D. No attractive forces exists  C. Phase work
between the molecule of a gas  D. System work

132. How does an adiabatic process 137. Thermal radiation is an

compare to an isentropic process? electromagnetic radiation with
wavelengths in _____ range.

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 A. 1 to 100 µm 143. Which is NOT a characteristic of

 B. 0.1 to 100 µm emissivity?
 C. 0.1 to 10 µm
 D. 10 to 100 µm  A. It is high with most nonmetals
 B. It is directly proportional to
138. What refers to the rate of thermal temperature
radiation emitter per unit area of a body?  C. It is independent with the
surface condition of the material
 A. Thermal conductivity  D. It is low with highly polished
 B. Absorptivity metals
 C. Emissivity
 D. Emissive power 144. What is the emissivity of a black
body?
139. What states that for any two bodies
in thermal equilibrium, the ratios of  A. 0
emissive power to the absorptivity are  B. 1
equal?  C. 0.5
 D. 0.25
 A. Kirchhoff’s radiation law
 B. Newton’s law of cooling 145. What is the absorptivity of a black
 C. Stefan-Boltzmann law body?
 D. Hess’s law
 A. 0
140. What is considered as a perfect  B. 1
absorber as well as a perfect emitter?  C. 0.5
 D. 0.25
 A. Gray body
 B. Black body 146. What is sometimes known as the
 C. Real body “Fourth-power law”?
 D. White body
 A. Kirchhoff’s radiation law
141. What is a body that emits a  B. Newton’s law of cooling
constant emissivity regardless of the  C. Stefan-Boltzmann law
wavelength?  D. Hess’s law

 A. Gray body 147. What states that the net change in

 B. Black body the total energy of the system during a
 C. Real body process is equal to the difference
 D. White body between the total energy entering and
the total energy leaving the system
142. At same temperatures, the during that process?
radiation emitted by all real surfaces is
______ the radiation emitted by a black  A. Third law of thermodynamics
body.  B. Conservation of energy
principle
 A. Less than  C. Second law of
 B. Greater than thermodynamics
 C. Equal to  D. Conservation of mass
 D. Either less than or greater principle
than
148. The equation Ein – Eout = ∆Esystem is
known as ______.

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 A. Energy conservation 153. What is the ratio of the useful heat

 B. Energy equation extracted to heating value?
 C. Energy balance
 D. Energy conversion equation  A. Combustion efficiency
 B. Phase efficiency
149. What remains constant during a  C. Heat efficiency
steady-flow process?  D. Work efficiency

 A. Mass 154. What is defined as the ratio of the

 B. Energy content of the control net electrical power output to the rate of
volume fuel energy input?
 C. Temperature
 D. Mass and energy content of  A. Combustion efficiency
the control volume  B. Thermal efficiency
 C. Overall efficiency
150. Thermal efficiency is the ratio of:  D. Furnace efficiency

 A. Network input to total heat 155. What refers to the amount of heat
input removed from the cooled space in BTS’s
 B. Network output to total heat for 1 watt-hour of electricity consumed?
output
 C. Network output to total heat  A. Cost efficiency rating
input  B. Energy efficiency rating
 D. Network input to total heat  C. Coefficient of performance
output  D. Cost of performance

156. What law states that it is impossible

to build a device that operates in a cycle
MCQs Part IV and produces no effect other than the
transfer of heat from a lower-
151. What law states that it is impossible temperature body to a higher-
to operate an engine operating in a temperature body?
cycle that will have no other effect than
to extract heat from a reservoir and turn  A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
it into an equivalent amount of work?  B. First law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of
 A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics thermodynamics
 B. First law of thermodynamics  D. Third law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of
thermodynamics 157. What statement of the second law
 D. Third law of thermodynamics of thermodynamics states that it is
impossible to build a device that
152. Which statement of the second law operates in a cycle and produces no
of thermodynamics states that no heat effect other than the transfer of heat
engine can have a thermal efficiency of from a lower-temperature body to a
100 percent? higher-temperature body?

 A. Kelvin-Planck statement  A. Kelvin-Planck statement

 B. Clausius statement  B. Clausius statement
 C. Kevin statement  C. Kelvin statement
 D. Rankine statement  D. Rankine statement

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158. A device that violates either the first 163. The Carnot cycle is composed of
law of thermodynamics or the second how many reversible processes?
law of thermodynamics is known as
_____.  A. 2
 B. 3
 A. Ambiguous machine  C. 4
 B. Universal machine  D. 5
 C. Perpetual-motion machine
 D. Unique machine 164. The Carnot cycle is composed of
______ processes.
159. A device that violates the first law
of thermodynamics is called a _____.  A. One isothermal and one
adiabatic
 A. Perpetual-motion machine of  B. One isothermal and two
the first kind adiabatic
 B. Universal machine of the first  C. Two isothermal and one
kind adiabatic
 C. Ambiguous machine of the  D. Two isothermal and two
first kind adiabatic
 D. Unique machine of the first
kind 165. What is the highest efficiency of
heat engine operating between the two
160. A device that violates the second thermal energy reservoirs at
law of thermodynamics is called a temperature limits?
______.
 A. Ericson efficiency
 A. Perpetual motion machine of  B. Otto efficiency
the second kind  C. Carnot efficiency
 B. Universal machine of the  D. Stirling efficiency
second kind
 C. Ambiguous machine of the 166. What is a heat engine that operates
second kind on the reversible Carnot cycle called?
 D. Unique machine of the second
kind  A. Carnot heat engine
 B. Ideal heat engine
161. Carnot cycle is the best known  C. Most efficient heat engine
reversible cycle which was first  D. Best heat engine
proposed in what year?
167. What states that thermal
 A. 1842 efficiencies of all reversible heat engines
 B. 1824 operating between the same two
 C. 1832 reservoirs are the same and that no heat
 D. 1834 engine is more efficient than a reversible
one operating between the same two
162. Who proposed the Carnot cycle? reservoirs?

 A. Sammy Carnot  A. Ericson principle

 B. Sonny Carnot  B. Carnot principle
 C. Sadi Carnot  C. Otto principle
 D. Suri Carnot  D. Stirling principle

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168. Who discovered the  A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics

thermodynamic property “Entropy” in  B. First law of thermodynamics
1865?  C. Second law of
thermodynamics
 A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics  D. Third law of thermodynamics
 B. First law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of 174. “The entropy change of a system
thermodynamics during a process is equal to the net
 D. Third law of thermodynamics entropy transfer through the system
boundary and the entropy generated
169. A process during which entropy within the system”. This statement is
remains constant is called ______ known as:
process
 A. Entropy generation
 A. Isometric  B. Entropy change of a system
 B. Isochoric  C. Entropy balance relation
 C. Isobaric  D. Third law of thermodynamics
 D. Isentropic
175. What law states that entropy can
170. “A reversible adiabatic process is be created but it cannot be destroyed?
necessarily isentropic but an isentropic
process is not necessarily reversible  A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
adiabatic process.” This statement is:  B. First law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of
 A. True thermodynamics
 B. False  D. Third law of thermodynamics
 C. May be true and may be false
 D. Absurd 176. Entropy is transferred by ______.

171. The term “isentropic process” used  A. Work

in thermodynamics implies what?  B. Heat
 C. Energy
 A. Reversible adiabatic process  D. Work and heat
 B. Externally reversible, adiabatic
process 177. During adiabatic, internally
 C. Internally reversible, adiabatic reversible process, what is true about
process the change in entropy?
 D. Irreversible adiabatic process
 A. It is temperature-dependent
172. What states that the entropy of a  B. It is always greater than zero
pure crystalline substance at absolute  C. It is always zero
zero temperature is zero?  D. It is always less than zero

 A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics 178. Water boils when:

 B. First law of thermodynamics
 C. Second law of  A. Its saturated vapor pressure
thermodynamics equals to the atmospheric
 D. Third law of thermodynamics pressure
 B. Its vapor pressure equals
173. What law provides an absolute 76cm of mercury
reference point for the determination of  C. Its temperature reaches 212
entropy? degree Celsius

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 D. Its vapor pressure is 1 gram  C. Thickness of material/

per sq. cm 2(thermal conductivity of
material)
179. Which of the following is standard  D. Thickness of material x
temperature and pressure (STP)? thermal conductivity of material

 A. 0 degree Celsius and one 184. In the process of radiation, energy

atmosphere is carried by electromagnetic waves.
 B. 32 degree Fahrenheit and What is the speed of electromagnetic
zero pressure waves?
 C. 0 degree Kelvin and one
atmosphere  A. 182,000 miles/second
 D. 0 degree Fahrenheit and zero  B. 184,000 miles/second
pressure  C. 186,000 miles/second
 D. 188,000 miles/second
180. What is the value of the work done
for a closed, reversible isometric 185. For heat engine operating between
system? two temperatures (T1>T2), what is the
maximum efficiency attainable?
 A. Zero
 B. Positive  A. Eff = 1 – (T2/T1)
 C. Negative  B. Eff = 1 - (T1/T2)
 D. Positive or negative  C. Eff = T1 - T2
 D. Eff = 1 - (T2/T1)^2
181. “At constant pressure, the volume
of a gas is inversely proportional to the 186. Which one is the correct relation
pressure”. This is known as ______. between energy efficiency ratio (EER)
and coefficient of performance (COP)?
 A. Boyle’s Law
 B. Charles’s Law  A. EER = 2.34 COP
 C. Gay-Lussac Law  B. EER = 3.24 COP
 D. Ideal gas law  C. EER = 3.42 COP
 D. EER = 4.23 COP
182. Which of the following is the
mathematical representation of the 187. The coefficient of performance
Charles’s law? (COP) is the ratio between the:

 A. V1/V2= P2/P1  A. Power consumption in watts

 B. V1/T1=V2/T2 and heat absorbed per hour
 C. V1/T2=V2/T1  B. Heat absorbed per hour and
 D. V1/V2=√P2/√P1 the power consumption in watts
 C. Work required and the
183. Which of the following is the absorbed heat
formula for thermal resistance?  D. Absorbed heat and work
required
 A. Thickness of material/ thermal
conductivity of material 188. What predicts the approximate
 B. 2(thickness of molar specific heat at high temperatures
material)/thermal conductivity of from the atomic weight?
material
 A. Third law of thermodynamics
 B. Law of Dulong and Petit

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 C. Mollier diagram 194. What is defined as the ratio of the

 D. Pressure-enthalpy diagram change in temperature to the change in
pressure when a real gas is throttled?
189. Considering one mole of any gas,
the equation of state of ideal gases is  A. Rankine coefficient
simply the ______ law.  B. Kelvin coefficient
 C. Maxwell-Boltzmann coefficient
 A. Gay-Lussac law  D. Joule-Thomson coefficient
 B. Dulong and Petit
 C. Avogadro’s 195. The low temperature reservoir of
 D. Henry’s the heat reservoirs is known as ______.

190. An ideal gas whose specific heats  A. Source reservoir

are constant is called _____.  B. Heel reservoir
 C. Toe reservoir
 A. Perfect gas  D. Sink reservoir
 B. Natural gas
 C. Artificial gas 196. A ______ is a flow in which the gas
 D. Refined gas flow is adiabatic and frictionless and
entropy change is zero.
191. What are the assumptions of the
kinetic gas theory?  A. Isentropic flow
 B. Isobaric flow
 A. Gas molecules do not attract  C. Steady flow
each other  D. Uniform flow
 B. The volume of the gas
molecules is negligible compared 197. What refers to the minimum
to the volume of the gas temperature at which combustion can be
 C. The molecules behave like sustained?
hard spheres
 D. All of the above  A. Burn temperature
 B. Kindle temperature
192. “The total volume of a mixture of  C. Spark temperature
non-reacting gases is equal to the sum  D. Ignition temperature
of the partial volumes.” This statement is
known as ______. 198. What law predicts the dew point of
moisture in the fuel gas?
 A. Law of Dulong and Petit
 B. Maxwell-Boltzmann law  A. Dalton’s law
 C. Amagat’s law  B. Law of Dulong and Petit
 D. Avogadro’s law  C. Ringelman law
 D. Amagat’s law
193. An adiabatic process in which there
is no change in system enthalpy but for 199. What law states that one energy
which there is a significant decrease in from can be converted without loss into
pressure is called _____. another form?

 A. Isochoric process  A. Amagat’s law

 B. Isobaric process  B. Joule’s law
 C. Throttling process  C. Lussac’s law
 D. Quasistatic process  D. Henry’s law

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200. Which is NOT a correct statement? 205. The change in physical size of a
substance when its temperature
 A. A superheated vapor will not changes.
condense when small amount of
heat re removed  a. intensive property
 B. An ideal gas is a gas that is  b. extensive property
not a superheated vapor  c. volume expansion
 C. A saturated liquid can absorb  d. thermal expansion
as much heat as it can without
vaporizing 206. A stress which develops within an
 D. Water at 1 atm and room object when it attempts to expand or
temperature is subcooled contract in response to a temperature
changes, but cannot, due to being held
rigidly in place.
MCQs Part V  a. elongation
201. Thermodynamics is the study of  b. thermal stress
heat and its transformation which stems  c. expansion contraction
from Greek words meaning _________.  d. thermal expansion

 a. transformation of heat 207. The energy associated with

 b. transformation of energy individual molecules in a gas, liquid or
 c. movement of heat solid.
 d. movement of matter
 a. Specific Energy
202. What is the Si unit for temperature?  b. Molecular Energy
 c. Internal Energy
 a. Kelvin  d. Phase Energy
 b. Celsius
 c. Fahrenheit 208. The heat Q per unit mass per
 d. Rankine degree change in temperature that must
be supplied or removed to change the
203. The energy that flows from higher temperature of a substance.
temperature object to a lower
temperature object because of the  a. Specific Heat Capacity
difference in temperature is called  b. Latent Heat
 c. Heat of Transformation
 a. heat  d. Internal Heat
 b. temperature
 c. thermodynamics cycle 209. The pressure of the vapor phase of
 d. energy flow a substance that is in equilibrium with
the liquid or solid phase.
204. The amount of heat energy per
kilogram that must be added or removed  a. Phase Pressure
when a substance changes from one  b. Equilibrium Vapor Pressure
phase to another.  c. Specific Pressure
 d. Equilibrium Phase Pressure
 a. specific heat
 b. heat of expansion 210. Vapor pressure depends only on
 c. latent heat _________.
 d. useful heat
 a. pressure

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 b. force  a. 10 K
 c. volume  b. 293 K
 d. temperature  c. 303 K
 d. 273 K
211. A plot of pressure vs. temperature
for a given substance showing the 217. _________ is a thermodynamic
various phases possible for that potential which measures the “useful”
particular substance. work obtainable from a closed
thermodynamic system at a constant
 a. Phase diagram temperature and volume.
 b. P-T diagram
 c. Wein Diagram  a. useful work
 d. Histogram  b. energy consumed
 c. Helmholtz free energy
212. _________ is the grand total of all  d. Kinetic Energy
energies inside a substance.
218. How much will the length of a 1.0
 a. Internal Energy km section of concrete highway change
 b. Grand Energy if the temperature varies from -15˚C in
 c. Atomic Energy winter to 41˚C in summer?
 d. Elemental Energy
 a. 0.67 m
213. The _________ is defined as the  b. 2.2 m
amount of heat required to change the  c. 3.1 m
temperature of 1 gram of water by 1  d. 0.47 m
Celsius degree.
219. Two 12 ft. sections of aluminum
 a. specific heat siding are placed end to end on the
 b. latent heat outside wall of house. How large a gap
 c. Joule should be left between the pieces to
 d. calorie prevent buckling if the temperature can
change by 55˚C?
214. _________ is a measure of the
average kinetic energy per molecule in a  a. 0.21 m
substance.  b. 0.18 m
 c. 0.31 in
 a. movement  d. 0.18 in
 b. temperature
 c. heat 220. What is the amount of radiant
 d. mass energy received each second over each
square meter that is at right angles to
215. _________ the very small KE still the sun’s rays at the top of the
present in molecules at absolute zero atmosphere?
temperature.
 a. 1400 J
 a. internal KE  b. 6000 J
 b. Atomic kinetic energy  c. 10000 J
 c. Zero-Point Energy  d. 800 J
 d. Subliminal Energy
221. _________ is a thermodynamic
216. Convert the change of temperature potential that measures the “useful” or
from 20˚C to 30˚C to Kelvin scale. process-initiating work obtainable from

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an isothermal, isobaric thermodynamic  c. change

system.  d. increase

 a. Du-Pont Potential 227. For most solids, the coefficient of

 b. Gibbs free energy volume expansion is _________ the
 c. Rabz-Eccles Energy coefficient of linear expansion.
 d. Claussius Energy
 a. unrelated to
222. All the energy we consume  b. proportional to
ultimately becomes _________.  c. twice
 d. three times
 a. heat
 b. depleted 228. The volume of a given amount of
 c. exhausted water _________ as the temperature
 d. work decreases from 4˚C to 0˚C.

223. _________is the partial pressure of  a. decreases

water vapor at the existing temperature  b. increases
divided by the equilibrium vapor  c. remains constant
pressure of water at the existing  d. none of the above
temperature.
229. The gas in a constant gas
 a. vacuum pressure thermometer cooled to absolute zero
 b. relative humidity would have _________.
 c. absolute pressure
 d. vapor pressure  a. no volume
 b. no pressure
224. _________ is the transition of a  c. zero temperature at all scales
given substance from the solid to the  d. none of the above
gas phase with no intermediate liquid
stage. 230. On a day when the partial pressure
of water vapor remains constant, what
 a. Convection happens as the temperature rises?
 b. Conduction
 c. Radiation  a. the relative humidity increases
 d. Sublimation  b. the relative humidity decreases
 c. the relative humidity remains
225. A process in which heat energy is constant
transferred by the flow of fluid.  d. the air would eventually
become saturated
 a. Convection
 b. Conduction 231. The flow of a fluid when heat is
 c. Radiation transferred by convection.
 d. Sublimation
 a. placidity
226. In order to use a substance to  b. mass flow
make a thermometer the substance  c. convection current
must _________ with a temperature  d. heat transfer
change.
232. An idealized perfect absorber and
 a. expand perfect emitter of radiation.
 b. contract

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 a. elastic material  a. path function

 b. transponder material  b. point function
 c. Teflon  c. process
 d. blackbody  d. cycle

233. A process by which heat is 239. The contact surface shared by both
transferred through a material without a the system and the surroundings is
bulk movement of the material. called _________.

 a. Convection  a. wall
 b. Conduction  b. boundary
 c. Radiation  c. interface
 d. Emission  d. intersection

234. Is the amount of a substance that 240. A closed system is also known as
contains Avogadro’s number of _________.
atoms/molecules.
 a. isolated system
 a. mass  b. closed container
 b. matter  c. control mass
 c. gram-mole  d. control volume
 d. volume
241. Open system is also known as
235. The distribution of particle speeds _________.
in an ideal gas at a given temperature.
 a. isolated system
 a. velocity of propagation  b. closed container
 b. escape velocity  c. control mass
 c. Maxwell speed Distribution  d. control volume
 d. terminal velocity
242. Liquid hydrogen boils at 17 K. What
236. A convection process in which an is the temperature in degrees Celsius?
external device, such as a fan, is used
to produce the fluid flow.  a. 290
 b. 63
 a. Forced Convection  c. -120
 b. External Convection  d. -256
 c. Placid Convection
 d. Thermionic Convection 243. When a solid melts,

237. A _________ is a quantity whose  a. the temperature of the

value at any state is independent of the substance increases.
path or process used to reach that state.  b. the temperature of the
substance decreases.
 a. cycle  c. heat leaves the substance.
 b. path function  d. heat enters the substance.
 c. point function
 d. process 244. How many kilocalories of heat are
required to heat 750 g of water from
238. A _________ is a quantity whose 35˚C to 55˚C.
value depends on the path followed
during a particular change in state.  a. 15

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 b. 1500  a. increased fourfold

 c. 1.5 x 10^4  b. doubled
 d. 6.3 x 10^4  c. reduced by half
 d. decreased by a quarter
245. Which of the following does not
determine the amount of internal energy
an object has?

 a. temperature MCQs Part VI

 b. amount of material 251. If the Kelvin temperature of an ideal
 c. type of material gas is doubled, what happens to the rms
 d. shape of the object speed of the molecules in the gas?

246. Which of the following have the  a. it increases by a factor of

highest thermal conductivities? square root of 2
 b. it increases by a factor of 2
 a. liquids  c. it increases by factor of 4
 b. gases  d. none of the above
 c. metals
 d. solids other than metals 252. A function of state that is
associated with disorder in the system
247. Identical objects of four different and environment.
materials are heated to the same high
temperature. Which of the following  a. enthalpy
would least likely burn your hand if  b. entropy
touched?  c. law of diminishing return
 d. Lenz’ Law
 a. aluminium
 b. brass 253. No volume changes occur during
 c. glass this type of process
 d. concrete
 a. Isobaric process
248. As we heat a gas at constant  b. Isomillimetric process
pressure, its volume  c. Isocaloric process
 d. Isochoric process
 a. increases
 b. decreases 254. The boiling of water into steam in
 c. stays the same an open container is an example of a/an
 d. none of the above _________ process.

249. The volume of an ideal gas is  a. adiabatic

directly proportional to its  b. isochoric
 c. isobaric
 a. pressure  d. zero work
 b. Celsius temperature
 c. Kelvin temperature 255. When liquid water is converted to
 d. Fahrenheit temperature steam at 100˚C, the entropy of water

250. An ideal gas is maintained at  a. increases

constant temperature. If the pressure on  b. decreases
the gas is doubled, the volume is  c. remains the same

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 d. none of the above  c. thermodynamic device

 d. thermos
256. Only energy can cross the
boundaries. 262. When an object undergoes thermal
expansion,
 a. Closed system
 b. Open system  a. any holes in the object expand
 c. Isolated system as well
 d. Isoenergetic system  b. any holes in the object remain
the same
257. The temperature at which the vapor  c. mass increases
pressure exactly equals one atm is  d. molecular activities would
called _________. cease

 a. boiling temperature 263. _________ is the quantity of heat

 b. normal boiling point required to raise the temperature of one
 c. triple point pound of water 1 F˚ from 63 ˚F to 64 ˚F.
 d. point of infliction
 a. one Joule
258. Mixture of liquid and steam of the  b. one calorie
same substance in which both are at  c. one watt
saturation temperature.  d. one BTU

 a. dry steam 264. Boiling temperature of a material is

 b. current steam dependent on its _________.
 c. wet steam
 d. aerosol  a. volume
 b. power
259. The term _________ is traditionally  c. heat
used to describe steam issuing from  d. pressure
condensate receiver vents and open-
ended condensate discharge lines from 265. Thermos was invented by
steam traps. _________.

 a. dry steam  a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 b. wet steam  b. Sir Fredrich the Great
 c. phase steam  c. Thomas Edison
 d. flash steam  d. Sir James Dewar

260. Defined as the ratio of weight of dry 266. Most cooking activities involve
steam to the weight of stuff. _________ process.

 a. dryness fraction  a. Isochoric

 b. Vaporization  b. Isothermal
 c. fusion  c. Isobaric
 d. super heated steam  d. Isovolumic

261. What device measures infrared 267. Adiabatic heating and Adiabatic
radiation below? cooling really means _________ and
_________ respectively.
 a. thermocouple
 b. thermopile

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 a. raising the temp and lowering  c. 6 x 10^15 tons

the temp  d. 8 x 10^10 tons
 b. maintaining the pressure and
changing the temperature 273. _________ is defined as that
 c. decreasing the volume and equivalent to the pressure due to a
increasing the pressure column of mercury 76cm long.
 d. lowering the temp and raising
the temp  a. surface pressure
 b. gage pressure
268. The statement “heat cannot by  c. standard atmospheric pressure
itself flow from one body into a hotter  d. isobaric pressure
body” is governed by _________.
274. If any external pressure is applied
 a. the first law of thermodynamics to a confined fluid, the pressure will be
 b. the second law of increased at every point in the fluid by
thermodynamics the amount of the external pressure is
 c. the third law of known as _________.
thermodynamics
 d. the zeroth law of  a. Torricelli’s law
thermodynamics  b. Barometric law
 c. Newton’s Second law
269. It is impossible for any process to  d. Pascal’s law
have as its sole result the transfer of
heat from a cooler to a hotter body 275. What type of pressure cannot be
used for Boyle’s Law?
 a. Carnot’s statement
 b. Clausius statement  a. Atmospheric Pressure
 c. Rankine statement  b. Gauge Pressure
 d. Gauss statement  c. Surface Pressure
 d. Isobaric Pressure
270. _________ is the average distance
a molecule moves before colliding with 276. To displace a cubic foot of fresh
another molecule. water, you need _________ force.

 a. mean free path  a. 62.4 lb

 b. path allowance  b. 9.81 lb
 c. compacting factor  c. 76 lb
 d. molecular space  d. 760 lb

271. Find the pressure due to a column 277. The force per unit length across
of mercury 74.0 cm high. such a line in the surface is called
_________.
 a. 91.80 x 10^3 N/m^2
 b. 73.56 x 10^2 N/m^2  a. force per length
 c. 9.86 x 10^4 N/m^2  b. surface tension
 d. 87.2 x 10^4 N/m^2  c. Pressure
 d. Density
272. Roughly what is the total weight of
air in the entire earth? 278. The speed at which a liquid
escapes from a vessel through an orifice
 a. 1 x 10^5 tons is given by _________.
 b. 2 x 10^6 tons

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 a. Archimedes Principle 284. In thermodynamics, a throttling

 b. Evangelista’s Law process, also called a _________, is a
 c. Torricelli’s Theorem type of isenthalpic process where a
 d. Bernoulli’s Equation liquid or gas is cooled as it passes from
a higher pressure state to a lower
279. The process of one substance pressure state.
mixing with another because of
molecular motion is called _________.  a. Rankine Process
 b. Carnot Cycle
 a. diffusion  c. Joule-Thomson process
 b. viscosity  d. Refrigeration process
 c. streamline flow
 d. solution 285. Gasoline and Diesel Engines are
best described by the _________.
280. When was the Ninth General
Conference on Weights and Measures  a. Otto Cycle
decided to abandon centigrade and  b. Burnign Cycle
used Celsius Instead?  c. Shikki Cycle
 d. Shapa R’ Elli Cycle
 a. 1950
 b. 1936 286. Twenty grams of ice at 0˚C melts to
 c. 1957 water at 0˚C. How much does the
 d. 1948 entropy of the 20g change in this
process?
281. _________ is the temperature to
which the air must be cooled, at  a. 30.5 J/K
constant pressure, to produce  b. 24.6 J/K
saturation.  c. 21.3 J/K
 d. 15.7 J/K
 a. relative humidity
 b. triple point temperature 287. The first law of thermodynamics is
 c. dew point based on which of the following
 d. critical point principles?

282. _________ is a succession of  a. conservation of mass

changes that ends with the return of the  b. the enthalpy-entropy
body or system to its initial state. relationship
 c. action – reaction
 a. process  d. conservation of energy
 b. system
 c. equilibrium 288. If a system absorbs 500 cal of heat
 d. cycle at the same time does 400J of work, find
the change in internal energy of the
283. Intensive properties of a system system.
are called _________.
 a. 1400 J
 a. Bulk Properties  b. 1700 J
 b. Innate Properties  c. 1900 J
 c. Natural Properties  d. 1500 J
 d. Inside Properties
289. A gas is enclosed in a cylinder with
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The gas is heated and expands from a  d. Zeroth Law of thermodynamics

volume of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3 at a
constant pressure of 200 kPa. Find the 295. One calorie is equal to _________.
work done on the system.
 a. 1/180 W.h
 a. 5 kJ  b. 1/860 W.h
 b. 15 kJ  c. 1/360 W.h
 c. 10 kJ  d. 1/250 W.h
 d. 12 kJ
296. A _________ is a reversible
290. A simple steam engine receives process in which there is transfer of heat
steam from the boiler at 180˚C and and takes place according to the relation
exhausts directly into the air at 100˚C. pVn = C where n is any constant.
What is the upper limit of its efficiency?
 a. Polytropic process
 a. 11.28 %  b. Entropy
 b. 36.77 %  c. Ideal Gas Law
 c. 20.36 %  d. Carnot Cycle
 d. 17.66 %
297. The flow through an open system is
291. Heat which causes a change in _________ if all properties at each point
temperature of a substance. within the system remain constant with
respect to time.
 a. Latent heat
 b. Sensible heat  a. streamline flow
 c. Specific heat  b. steady flow
 d. Heat of Fusion  c. constant flow
 d. algebraic flow
292. Who coined the term latent heat?
298. The most efficient cycle that can
 a. John Thompson operate between two constant
 b. Studey Baker temperature reservoir is the _________.
 c. Joe di Maggio
 d. Joseph Black  a. Otto Cycle
 b. Lazare Cycle
293. Which of the following cannot be  c. Isothermal Cycle
measured by a thermometer?  d. Carnot Cycle

 a. Latent Heat 299. The flow energy of 150 L of a fluid

 b. Sensible Heat passing a boundary to a system is 110
 c. Specific Heat kJ. Determine the pressure at this point
 d. Heat of Fusion
 a. 733.33 kPa
294. It is generally accepted as a law of  b. 833.33 kPa
nature that although one may closely  c. 933.33 kPa
approach 0 Kelvin it is impossible  d. 633.33 kPa
actually to reach it.
300. Who is the father of
 a. First Law of thermodynamics thermodynamics?
 b. Second Law of
thermodynamics  a. Lazare Carnot
 c. Third Law of thermodynamics  b. Sadi Carnot

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 c. William Thompson ty factor defined relative to an ideal gas?

 d. Rudolf Classius (subscript “c”refers to critical value)

 A. z = P / Pc
 B. z = pV/ RT

MCQs Part VII 
C. z = T /Tc
D. z = RT / pV
301. If air is at pressure, p, of 3200
lbf/ft2, and at a temperature, T, of 800 Hint: for an real gases the
˚R, what is the specific volume, v? compressibility factor, x, is an
(R=5303 ft-lbf/lbm-˚R, and air can be dimensionless constant given by pV=
modeled as an ideal gas.) zRT. Therefore z = pV / RT
305. From the steam table, determine
 A.9.8 ft^3/lbm the average constant pressure specific
 B.11.2 ft^3/lbm heat (c) of steam at 10 kPa and45.8 ˚C
 C.13.33 ft^3/lbm
 D.14.2 ft^3/lbm  A.1.79 kJ/ kg-˚C
 B.10.28 kJ/ kg-˚C
Formula: pv = RT v = RT / p  C.30.57 kJ/ kg-˚C
302. Steam at 1000 lbf/ft^2 pressure and  D. 100.1 kJ/ kg-˚C
300˚R has specific volume of 6.5
ft^3/lbm and a specific enthalpy of 9800 Formula: ∆h = c∆T
lbf-ft/lbm. Find the internal energy per From the steam table
pound mass of steam.
At 47.7 ˚C h= 2588.1 kJ/ kg
 A.2500 lbf-ft/lbm
At 43.8 ˚C h= 2581.1 kJ/ kg
 B.3300 lbf-ft/lbm
 C.5400 lbf-ft/lbm 306. A 10m^3 vessel initially contains 5
 D.6900 lbf-ft/lbm m^3 of liquid water and 5 m^3 of
saturated water vapor at 100 kPa.
Formula: h= u+ pV u= h– pV Calculate the internal energy of the
system using the steam table.
303. 3.0 lbm of air are contained at 25
psia and 100 ˚F. Given that Rair = 53.35
 A. 5 x10^5 kJ
ft-lbf/lbm- ˚F, what is the volume of the
 B. 8x10^5 kJ
container?
 C. 1 x10^6 kJ
 D. 2 x10^6 kJ
 A.10.7 ft^3
 B.14.7 ft^3
Formula: fromthe steamtable
 C.15 ft^3
 D.24.9 ft^3 vƒ = 0.001043 m^3 / kg

Formula: use the ideal gas law vg = 1.6940 m^3 / kg

pV = mRT u ƒ= 417.3 kJ/kg ug= 2506kJ/kg

T = (100 +460) ˚R formula: Mvap = V vap/vg

V = mRT/p M liq = Vliq/ vƒ

304. The compressibility factor, x, is u =uƒM liq + ug M vap

used for predicting the behavior of non- 307. A vessel with a volume of cubic
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vapor ion equilibrium at 600 kPa. The  C. 0.357 K/s

liquid water has mass of1kg. Using the  D. 1.50 K/s
steam table, calculate the mass of the
water vapor. Formula: Q = mcv (∆T)

 A. 0.99kg 311. A system weighing 2kN. Determine

 B. 1.57 kg the force that accelerate if to 12 m/s^2.
 C. 2.54 kg a. vertically upward when g = 9.7 m/s^2
 D. 3.16 kg
 A. 4474.23 N
Formula: from the steam table at  B.5484.23 N
600kPa  C.4495.23 N
 D.5488.23 N
vƒ = 0.001101 m^3 / kg
vg = 0.3157 m^3 / kg Formula: F = m/k (a +g)
Vtot = mƒ vƒ + mg vg 312. Refer to problem # 11. Determine
the force that accelerates if to 12 m/s^2.
mg = (tot-mƒ vƒ) / vg
horizontally along frictionless plane.
308. Calculate the entropy of steam at
60psiawith a quality of 0.8  A. 2474.23 N
 B. 2574.23 N
 A. 0.4274 BTU/lbm-˚R  C. 3474.23 N
 B. 0.7303 BTU/lbm-˚R  D. 2374.23 N
 C. 1.1577 BTU/lbm-˚R
 D. 1.2172 BTU/lbm-˚R Formula :
M = wk / g
Formula: fromthe steamtable at 60 psia:
F = ma /k
sƒ = 0.4274 BTU/lbm-˚R
313. A problem Drum ( 3 ft. diameter ; 6
sƒg = 1.2172 BTU/lbm-˚R)
ft. height ) is field with a fluid whose
s = sƒ + x sƒg where x = is the quality density is 50 lb/ft^3. Determine the total
volume of the fluid.
309. Find the change in internal energy
of 5 lb. of oxygen gas when the  A. 42.41 ft^3
temperature changes from 100 ˚F to 120  B.44.35 ft^3
˚F. CV = 0.157 BTU/lbm-˚R  C.45.63 ft^3
 D.41.23 ft^3
 A.14.7 BTU
 B.15.7 BTU Formula: Vf = (pi d^2 h) / 4
 C. 16.8 BTU
 D. 15.9 BTU 314. What is the resulting pressure
when one pound of air at 15 psia and
Formula: ∆U= mcv∆T 200 ˚F is heated at constant volume to
800 ˚F?
310. Water (specific heat cv= 4.2 kJ/ kg ∙
K ) is being heated by a 1500 W h eater.  A.15 psia
What is the rate of change in  B. 28.6 psia
temperature of 1kg of the water?  C. 36.4 psia.
 D. 52.1 psia
 A. 0.043 K/s
 B. 0.179 K/s Formula :

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T1/p1 = T2/p2  D.46.7 BTU/lbm

p2= p1T2 / T1
Formula: W = RT ln (V2/V1)
315. What horse power is required to
319. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a
isothermally compress 800 ft^3 of Air
weighted piston as the stop boundary.
per minute from 14.7 psia to 120 psia?
The gas is heated and expands from a
volume of 0.04 m^3 to 0.10 m^3 at a
 A. 28 hp constant pressure of [Link]
 B.108 hp the work done by the system.
 C.256 hp
 D.13900 hp
 A. 8 kJ
 B. 10 kJ
Formula: W= p1V1 ln (p1/p2)  C.12 kJ
Power = dW / dt  D.14 kJ

316. What is the equation for the work Formula: W = p(V2-V1)

done by a constant temperature
system? 320. refer to problem no.13. Determine
the specific volume.
 A. W = mRTln(V2-V1)
 B. W = mR( T2-T1 ) ln( V2/V1)  A. 0.02 ft^3/lbm
 C. W = mRTln (V2/V1)  B. 0.05 ft^3/lbm
 D. W = RT ln (V2/V1)  C. 1.0 ft^3/lbm
 D. 1.2 ft^3/lbm
Formula : W=∫ pdV lim1,2
Formula :
р = mRT / V
Vf = ( pi d^2 h) / 4
317. Twenty grams of oxygen gas are
compressed at a constant temperature Pf = mf / vf
of 30 ˚C to 5%of their original volume.
Specific volume= Vf /mf
What work is done on the system.
321. What is the weight of a66-kgm man
 A.824 cal at standard condition?
 B.924 cal
 C.944 cal (Formula: Fg= mg / k)
 D.1124 cal
 a. 66 kgf
 b. 66 kgm
Formula:
 c. 66 lbm
W = -mRTln (V2/V1)  d. 66 gf
Where R = (1.98 cal/gmole·K) (32
322. What is the specific weight of water
g/gmole)
at standard condition?
318. Helium ( R= 0.4698 BTU/lbm-˚R ) is
(Formula: γ = ρg / k)
compressed isothermally from 14.7 psia
and 68 ˚F. The compression ratio is 1:4.
 a. 1000 kgm/m3
Calculate the work done by the gas.
 b. 9.8066 m/s2
 c. 1000 kgf/m3
 A. –1454 BTU/lbm
 d. None of the above
 B. -364 BTU/lbm
 C.-187BTU/lbm
323. 746 °R = ______ °F

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 a. 254  a. 8300
 b. 345  b. 3800
 c. 286  c. 3080
 d. None of the above  d. None of the above

324. A 30-m vertical column of fluid 329. A certain gas, with cp =

(density 1878 kg/m3 ) is located where 0.529Btu/lb.°R and R = 96.2 [Link]/lb.°R,
g= 9.65 mps2. Find the pressure at the expands from 5 cu ft and 80°F to 15 cu
base of the column. ft while the pressure remains constant at
15.5 psia. Compute for T2.
(Formula: pg= gρhg/k )
(Formula: T2= T1V2/V1)
 a. 543680 N/m 2

 b. 543.68 kPa (gauge)  a. 460°R

 c. Both a & b  b. 270°R
 d. None of the above  c. 1620 °R
 d. None of the above
325. Ten cu ft. of air at 300 psia 400°F is
cooled to 140°F at constant volume. 330. In the above problem, compute for
What is the final pressure? the mass.
(formula: p2 = p1T2/T1) (Formula: m = p1V1 / RT1)

 a. 0  a. 0.2148 lb
 b. 209 psia  b. 0.2134 lb
 c. - 420 psia  c. 0.1248 lb
 d. None of the above  d. None of the above

326. 876 °R = _____ °F 331. 710°R= ______ °C

 a. 335  a. 214
 b. 416  b. 121
 c. 400  c. 213
 d. None of the above  d. None of the above

327. There are 1.36 kg of gas, for which 332. 212 °F = _____ °C
R = 377 J/kg.k and k = 1.25, that
undergo a nonflow constant volume  a. 200
process from p1 = 551.6 kPa and t1 =  b. 150
60°C to p2 = 1655 kPa. During the  c. 100
process the gas is internally stirred and  d. None of the above
there are also added 105.5 kJ of heat.
Determine t2. 333. Let a closed system execute a
state change for which the heat is Q =
(Formula: T2= T1p2/ p1)
100 J and work is W = -25 J. Find ∆E.
 a. 999 K (Formula: ∆E = Q- W)
 b. 888 K
 c. 456 K  a. 125 J
 d. One of the above  b. 123 J
 c. 126 J
328. 5 atm = ____mmHg  d. None of the above

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334. A pressure gage registers 50 psig  a. 485

in a region where the barometer is 14.25  b. 435
psia. Find absolute pressure in psia, Pa.  c. 498
 d. None of the above
(Formula; p = patm+ pg)
340. 212 °F = _____R
 a. 433 kPa
 b. 443 kPa
 a. 567
 c. 343 kPa
 b. 672
 d. None of the above
 c. 700
 d. None of the above
335. A mass of 5kg is 100m above a
given datum where local g = 9.75 m/s2.
341. An automobile tire has a gauge
Find the gravitational force in newtons.
pressure of 200 kpa at 0°C assuming no
(Formula: Fg= mg/k ) air leaks and no change of volume of the
tire, what is the gauge pressure at 35ºC.
 a. 48.75 N
 b. 50 N  a. 298.645
 c. 45 N  b. 398.109
 d. None of the above  c. 291.167
 d. 281.333
336. In the above problem, find the
potential energy of the mass with Pg = Pabs - Patm
respect to datum.
342. An ideal gas at 45psig and 80ºF is
(Formula: P = mgz/k ) heated in the close container to 130ºF.
What is the final pressure?
 a. 4875 j
 b. 0.51 j  a. 65.10 psi
 c. 0.46 j  b. 65.11 psi
 d. None of the above  c. 65.23 psi
 d. 61.16 psi
337. The combined mass of car and
passengers travelling at 72 km/hr is P1V1/T1= P2V2/T2;V = Constant
1500 kg. Find the kinetic energy of this
343. A wall of the firebrick has an inside
combined mass.
temperature of 313ºF and an outside
(Formula: K =mv2/ 2k ) temperature of 73ºF. What is the
difference in the surface temperature in
 a. 300 kJ Rankin?
 b. 200 kJ
 c. 500 kJ  a. 70
 d. None of the above  b. 68
 c. 72
338. 14.696 psia = _____ mmHg  d. 94

 a. 760 ºR = ºF + 460
 b. 1 344. What is the force required to
 c. 350 accelerate amass of 30kg at a rate of
 d. None of the above 15m/s².
339. 212 °C = _____ K  a. 460 N

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 b. 380 N a. Mass flow rate in lb/hr.

 c. 560 N
 d. 450 N b. The velocity at section 2 in fps

 a. 800,000lb/hr;625ft/s
F = ma
 b. 900,000lb/hr;625 ft/s
345. How much does an object having  c. 888,000lb/hr;269 ft/s
the mass of 100kg weight in newton.  d. 700,000lb/hr;269 ft/s

 a. 981 N m = A1V!/V1
 b. 991 N
 c. 981.6 N 350. A 600kg hammer of a pile driver is
 d. 980.1N lilted 2m the pilling head. What is the
change of potential energy? If the
hammer is realest. What will be its
F = ma
velocity and the instant if it sticks the
346. The volume of the gas held at pilling?
constant pressure increases 4 cm² at
0°C to 5cm². What is the final pressure?  a. 10,772 N-m and 5.26m/s
 b. 13,200 N-m and 5.26m/s
 a. 68.65ºC  c. 11,772 N-m and 6.26m/s
 b. 68.25ºC  d. 11,77 2N-m and5.26m/s
 c. 70.01°C
 d. 79.1ºC ▲PE = mgo(▲Z)/gc

t2= T2–T1
347. A certain gas with cp =
0.529Btu/lb°R and R = 96.2ft/lbºR MCQs Part VIII
expands from 5 ft and 80ºF to 15 ft while 351. A bayabas falls from a branch 5m
the pressure remains constant at 15.5 above the ground with what speed in
psia. meter per second does it strike the
ground assume g = 10m/s².
 a. T2=1.620ºR, ▲H = 122.83 Btu
 b. T2 = 2°R, ▲H = 122.83 Btu  a. 11m/s
 c. T2 = 2.620ºR, ▲H = 122.83  b. 12m/s
Btu  c. 13m/s
 d. T2 = 1°R, ▲H = 122.83 Btu  d. 10m/s

T2= V2(t2)/V1 and ▲H = mcp (T2-T1) ▲KE = mV2/2gc

348. A vacuum is connected to a tank 352. While swimming a depth of 13m in
reads 3kpa at a location w/ the a fresh water lake a fish emits an air
barametric pressure reading is 75mmhg. bubble of volume 2 mm² atmospheric
Determined the P absolute in the tank pressure is 100kpa what is the original
pressure of the bubble.
 a. 70.658 kpa
 b. 68 kpa  a. 217.17 kpa
 c. 58.78 kap  b. 119 kpa
 d. None of the above  c. 326.15 kpa
 d. 210 kap
Pabs = Patm – Pvacuum
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353. Oxygen at 15ºC and 10.3 Mpa m/s. What is the rate of flow in cubic
gauge pressure occupies 600L. What is meter/mm?
the occupied by the oxygen at 8.28 Mpa
gauge pressure and 35ºC?  a. 0.0001m³/min
 b. 0.076 m³/min
 a. 789.32 L  c. 0.085 m³/min
 b. 796.32 L  d. 0.097 m³/min
 c. 699 L
 d. 588 L 358. Water flowing at a 6m/s through a
60 mm pipe is suddenly channeled into
V2= P1V1/T1P2 a 30 mm pipe. What is the velocity in the
small pipe?
354. Water is flowing through a 1 foot
diameter pipe at the rate of 10ft/sec.
 a. 34m/s
What is the volume flow rate of water in
 b. 24m/s
ft³/sec?
 c. 15m/s
 d. 27m/s
 a. 7.85
 b. 6.85
359. A vertical column of water will be
 c. 8.85
supported to what height by standard
 d. 5.85
atmospheric pressure.
V = Aν
 a. 33.9 ft
355. A certain fluid is flowing in a 0.5m x  b. 45 ft
0.3 channel at the rate of 3 m/s and has  c. 67 ft
a specific volume of 0.012 m³/kg.  d. 25.46 ft
Determined the mass of water flowing in
kg/s. ho= Po/Yo
360. A fluid flows in a steady manner
 a. 267 kg/s
between two section in a flow line at
 b. 378 kg/s
section 1: A 1 = 1ft², V1 = 100fpm,
 c. 375 kg/s
volume1 of 4ft³/lb. at sec2: A2 = 2 ft², p=
 d. 456.5 kg/s
0.20 lb/ft³ calculate the velocity at
section 2.
m = Aν/V
356. A gas having a volume of100 ft³ at  a. 625 fpm
27ºC is expanded to 120 ft³by heated at  b. 567 fpm
constant pressure to what temperature  c. 356 fpm
has it been heated to have this new  d. None of the above
volume?
361. The weight of an object is 50lb.
 a. 87°C What is its mass at standard condition?
 b. 85°C
 c. 76°C  a. 50 lbm
 d. 97°C  b. 60 lbm
 c. 70 lbm
t2= T2–T1  d. 80 lbm
357. Water flow to a terminal 3 mm formula: m = Fgk /g
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362. A vertical column of water will be the total heat the roof would absorb over
supported to what height by standard the 12 day?
atmospheric pressure. If the Y w =
62.4lb/ft3 po = 14.7 psi.  a. 1.3 x 108 J
 b 2.3 x 108 J
 a. 44.9 ft  c. 3.3 x 108 J
 b. 33.9 ft  d. 4.3 x 108 J
 c. 22.9 ft
 d. 55.9 ft formula: ΔQ = ΔQ/Δtx Δt

formula: ho= po/Yw 367. The value for the ΔU of a system is

-120 J. If the system is known to have
363. For a certain gas R = 320 J/kg.K absorbed 420 J of heat, how much work
and cv= 0.84kJ/kg.K. Find k? was done?

 a. 1.36  a. -540 J
 b. 1.37  b. -640 J
 c. 1.38  c. -740 J
 d. 1.39  d. -840 J

formula: k= R / cv+1 formula: ΔU = q +w

364. Ten cu. ft of air at 300psia and 368. When the pressure on a 1 kg liquid
400°F is cooled to 140°F at constant is increased isothermally from 1 bar to
volume. What is the transferred heat? 3000 bar the Gibbs free energy
increases by 360 kJ. Estimate the
 a.-120Btu density of the liquid.
 b. -220Btu
 c.-320Btu  a. 0.66 kg liter-1
 d. -420Btu  b. 0.77 kg liter-1
 c. 0.88 kg liter-1
formula: Q= mcv(T2-T1)  d. 0.99 kg liter-1
365. Utilizing the answer to the previous 369. A car whose mass is 2 metric tons
problem, estimate the overall or average is accelerated uniformly from stand hill
increase in temperature ( ΔT) of the to 100 kmph in 5 sec. Find the driving
concrete roof from the energy absorbed force in Newton’s.
from the sun during a12hour day.
Assume that all of the radiation
 a. 11,120 N
absorbed goes into heating the roof. The
 b. 11,320 N
specific heat of concrete is about 900
 c. 11,420 N
J/kg, and the density is about 2,300
 d. 11520 N
kg/m3.
formula: F= ma / k
 a. 7.9 °C
 b. 8.9°C 370. An ideal gas of volume 1liter and
 c. 9.9°C pressure 10 bar undergoes a quasistatic
 d. 10.9°C adiabatic expansion until the pressure
drops to 1 bar. Assume γ to be 1.4 what
formula: ΔQ = m c ΔT is the final volume?
366. The concrete roof of a house is 10
 a. 3.18 l
m by 8 m and 10 cm thick (4"). Estimate
 b. 4.18 l

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 c. 5.18 l /kgK,k= 1.67) at 105 k/Paa, 27°C and

 d. 6.18 l delivers it at 630kPaa: ΔP = 0, ΔK= 0.
Find the work if the process is
371. Two masses, one of the 10kg and isentropic?
the other unknown, are placed on a
scale in a region where g = 9.67 m/sec2.  a. –1664 kJ/min
The combined weight of these two  b. –1774 kJ/min
masses is 174.06 N. Find the unknown  c. –1884 kJ/min
mass in kg.  d. –1994 kJ/min

 a. 20 kg formula: WSF = Q- ΔH m=p1V1/RT1

 b. 19 kg T2= T1(p2/p1)(k-1)/k
 c. 18 kg
 d. 17 kg 376. A carnot power cycle operates on 2
lb of air between the limits of 71 °F and
500°F. The pressure at the beginning of
formula: m=Fg k / g
isothermal expansion is 400 psia and at
372. The flow energy of 5 ft3 of a fluid the end of isothermal expansion is
passing a boundary to a system is 185psig. Determine the volume at the
80,000 ft-lb. Determine the pressure at end of isothermal compression.
this point.
 a. 7.849 ft3
 a. 222 psi  b. 7.850 ft3
 b. 333 psi  c. 7.851 ft3
 c. 444 psi  d. 7852 ft3
 d. 111 psi
formula: V= mRT/ P P3= P2[T3/ T2]
formula: Ef= pV
377. During a polytropic process,10lb of
373. Find и for steam at 100 psia and an ideal gas, whose R= [Link]/lb.R and
600°[Link] h = 1329.6 and v = 6.216 cp = 0.25Btu/lb.R, changes state from
20 psia and 40°F to 120psia and 340°F.
 a. 1214 Btu / lb Determine n?
 b. 1234 Btu /lb
 c. 1342 Btu / lb  a. 1.234
 d. 1324 Btu /lb  b. 1.345
 c. 1.456
formula: и = h– pv/ J  d. 1.356
374. What mass of nitrogen is contained formula: [ p2/p1]n-1 / n = T2/T1
in a10 ft3 vessel at a pressure of 840atm
and 820°R? Make a computation by 378. A perfect gas has a value of R=
using ideal gas equation. 319.2 J/ kf.K and k= 1.26. If 120 kJ are
added to 2.27 kf\g of this gas at constant
 a. 194lb pressure when the initial temp is
 b. 214lb 32.2°C? Find T2.
 c. 394 lb
 d. 413lb  a. 339.4 K
 b. 449.4 K
formula: m=pV /RT  c. 559.4K
 d. 669.4K
375. A rotary compressor receives 6m3/
min of a gas(R=410J/ kgK, cp=1.03kJ formula: cp = kR/ k-1 Q= mcp(T2-T1)

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379. A certain gas, with cp = 0.529Btu/  a) 265.4°C, 430.7kJ/kg,

lb. °Rand R = [Link]/lb. °R, expands 71.4kJ/kg,
from 5 cu ft and 80°F to 15 cu ft while 1.0327kJ/(kg)(K),502.1 kJ/kg
the pressure remains constant at  b) 204.2°C, -703.2 kJ/kg, -84.15
15.5psia. Compute for T2. kJ/kg, -1.7505 kJ/(kg)(K),-787.4
kJ/kg
 a.1520°R  c) 304.2°C, -803.2 kJ/kg, -89.15
 b. 1620°R kJ/kg, -2.7505 kJ/(kg)(K), -987.4
 c. 1720°R kJ/kg
 d. 1820°R  d) 279.4°C, 439.7kJ/kg,
79.4kJ/kg, 3.0327kJ/(kg)(K),
formula: T2= T1V2/V1 602.1 kJ/kg
380. A System has a temperature of Formula of #1and #2: ∆u = u2 –u1, W =
250°F. Convert this Value to °R? p(v2-v1), ∆s =s2-s1, Q = h2 –h1
 a. 740°R 383. At throttling calorimeter receives
 b.730°R steam from a boiler drum at0.11MPa
 c. 720°R and is superheated by 10 degrees. If the
 d. 710°R boiler drum pressure is 1.55 MPa, what
is the quality of the steam generated by
formula: °R= °F + 460 the boiler?

381. Steam with a specific volume of  a) 95.20%

0.09596 m³/kg undergoes a constant  b) 70.10%
pressure process at 1.70 MPa until the  c) 65.60%
specific volume becomes 0.13796  d) 95.56%
m³/kg. What are (a) the final
temperature, (b) ∆u, (c) W, (d)∆s, and Formula: h1 = hf1 + x1hfg1
(e) Q?
384. A steam calorimeter receives
 a) 265.4°C, 430.7kJ/kg, steam from a pipe at 0.1 MPa and
71.4kJ/kg, 20°SH. For a pipe steam pressure of 2
1.0327kJ/(kg)(K),502.1 kJ/kg MPa, what is the quality of the steam?
 b) 204.2°C, -703.2 kJ/kg, -84.15
kJ/kg, -1.7505 kJ/(kg)(K), -787.4  a) 95.56%
kJ/kg  b) 70.10%
 c) 304.2°C, -803.2 kJ/kg, -89.15  c) 95.20%
kJ/kg, -2.7505 kJ/(kg)(K), -987.4  d) 85.10%
kJ/kg
 d) 279.4°C, 439.7kJ/kg, Formula: h1 = hf1 + x1hfg1
79.4kJ/kg,
3.0327kJ/(kg)(K),602.1 kJ/kg 385. A 1-kg steam-water mixture at 1.0
MPa is contained in an inflexible tank.
Heat is added until the pressure rises to
382. Steam with an enthalpy of 2843.5
3.5 MPa and the temperature to 400°.
kJ/kg undergoes a constant pressure
Determine the heat added.
process at 0.9 MPa until the enthalpy
becomes 2056.1 kJ/kg. What are (a) the
 a) 1378.7 kJ
initial temperature or quality, (b) ∆u,
 b) 1348.5 kJ
(c)W, (d) ∆s, and(e) Q?
 c) 1278,7 kJ
 d) 1246,5 kJ

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Formula: Q = (h2 – p2v2) –(h1 –p1v1)  a) 130m³

 b) 136m³
386. Water vapor at 100 KPa and 150°C  c) 120m³
is compressed isothermally until half the  d) 126m³
vapor has condensed. How much work
must be performed on the steam in this
Formula: P1V1/T1 =P2V2/T2
compression process per kilogram?
391. A Gas tank registers1000 kPa.
 a) -1384.7 kJ After some gas has been used, the
 b) 1384.7 kJ gauge registers 500 kPa. What percent
 c) -2384.7 kJ of the gas remains in the tank?
 d) 2384.7 kJ
 a) 64.40%
387. Wet steam at 1 MPa flowing  b) 74.60%
through a pipe is throttled to a pressure  c) 58.40%
of 0.1 MPa. If the throttling temperature  d) 54.60%
is110°C, What is the quality of the steam
in the pipe? Formula: Pabs = Patm + Pgage & %=
P2/P1 * 100%
 a) 96%
 b) 86% 392. The volume of a gas under
 c) 76% standard atmospheric pressure & 76
 d) 66% cmHg is 200m³. What is the volume
when pressure is 80 cmHg if the
temperature is unchanged?
388. Steam is throttled to 0.1 MPa with
20 degrees of superheat. (a) What is the
 a) 180 in³
quality of throttled steam if its pressure
 b) 170 in³
is 0.75 MPa (b) What is the enthalpy of
 c) 160 in³
the process?
 d) 190 in³
 a) 97.6%,2713 kJ/kg
 b) -97.6%, 2713 kJ/kg Formula: P2V2 = P1V1
 c) 87.6%,3713 kJ/kg 393. While swimming at depth of120m in
 d) -87.6%, 3713 kJ/kg a fresh water lake, A fish emits an air
bubbles of volume 2.0mm³ atmospheric
389. The pressure gauge on a 2000 m³ pressure is 100kPa. What is the
tank of oxygen gas reads 600 kPa. How pressure of the bubble?
much volumes will the oxygen occupied
at pressure of the outside air 100 kPa?  a) 217.7 kPa
 b) 317.7 kPa
 a) 14026.5 m³  c) 417.7 kPa
 b) 15026.5 m³  d) 517.7 kPa
 c) 13026.5 m³
 d) 16026.5 m³ Formula: P= δh

Formula: P1V1/T1 =P2V2/T2 394. How many joules of work is the

equivalent of 15000 cal of heat?
390. Assuming compression is
according to the Law PV = C, Calculate  a) 62850 joules
the initial volume of the gas at a  b) 3579.95 joules
pressure of 2 bars w/c will occupy a  c) 14995.81 joules
volume of 6m³ when it is compressed to  d) 15004.19 joules
a pressure of 42 Bars.

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Formula: J =Work/Heat 399. How many calories of heat will be

needed to raise the temperature of 200
J = mechanical equivalent of heat whose g of iron from 27°C to 80°C? (c = 0.11
value is 4.19 joules/calorie cal/g. °C)
395. Two thick slices of bread, when
completely oxidized by the body, can  a) 1.16 kcal
supply 200,000 cal of heat. How much  b) 2166 cal
work is this equivalent to?  c) 3.16 kcal
 d) 4166 cal
 a) 4,190,000 joules
 b) 8,390,000 joules Formula: H = mc∆T
 c) 839,000 joules
400. 100g of iron was heated to 100°C
 d) 419 000 joules
and mixed with 22g of water at 40°C.
The final temperature of the mixture was
Formula: J =Work/Heat 60°C. Show that the heat given off by
J = mechanical equivalent of heat whose the iron equals the heat absorbed by the
value is 4.19 joules/calorie water.

396. 3 horsepower (hp) =  a) 440 cal

_____________watts?  b) 540 cal
 c) 340 cal
 a) 1492 watts  d) 640 cal
 b) 2238 watts
 c) 746 watts Formula: H (given off by iron) = H
 d) 2238 kilowatts (absorbed by water),

Formula: 1hp= 746 watts mc∆T(iron)= mc∆T(water)

397. How many Newton’s (N) in 900,000

dynes?

 a) 8 Newton’s
MCQs Part IX
 b) 9 Newton’s 401. An engineering science primarily
 c) 7 Newton’s concerned with heat and work
 d) 6 Newton’s conversions.

Formula: 1Newton (N)=100,000dynes  a. Thermodynamics

 b. Mechanics
398. Calculate the power output in
 c. Physics
horsepower of an 80-kg man that climbs
 d. Electromagnetic
a flight of stairs 3.8 m high in 4.0 s.
402. “If the temperature o f a fixed
 a) 744.8 hp
quantity of a gas is held constant during
 b) 0.998 hp
a change of state, the volume varies
 c) 746 hp
inversely with the absolute pressure.
 d) 1.998 hp
 a. Charle’s Law
Formula: Power = Fd/t = mgh/t
 b. Boyle’s Law
F = W = mg  c. Dalton’s Law
 d. Amagat’s Law
d=h
403. Avogadro’s Number NA

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 a. 6.2205 x 10^23 mol-1  b. when a body is inversed in a

 b. 6.2025 x 10^23 mol-1 fluid, the fluid exerts a upward
 c. 6.0225 x 10^23 mol-1 force on the body whose
 d. 6.2250 x 10^23 mol-1 magnitude is equal to the weight
of the displaced fluid.
404. The first law of thermodynamics  c. when a body is inversed in a
may be expressed in the following fluid, the fluid exerts a downward
equivalent force on the body whose
magnitude is greater than the
 a. the net heat transfer id equal weight of the displaced fluid.
to the network  d. when a body is inversed in a
 b. the sum of the total energy fluid, the fluid exerts a downward
forms leaving the system force on the body whose
boundary is always equal to the magnitude is lower than the
energy input weight of the displaced fluid.
 c. energy can neither be created
nor destroyed but only converted 409. Types of system except one
from one form to another
 d. all of the above  a. closed
 b. open
405. A system whose boundary does  c. isolated
not allow the exchange of either matter  d. solid
or energy with the surrounding
410. Isometric process is
 a. open system
 b. closed system  a. T = P
 c. isolated system  b. P = C
 d. none of the above  c. V = C
 d. T = V
406. The specific terms used in phase
transitions 411. The ratio of the change in energy in
the form of the heat
 a. melting
 b. evaporation  a. relative density
 c. freezing  b. specific heat
 d. sublimation  c. specific gravity
 d. none of the above
407. The density of water at 4°C is
412. Specific heat ratio is always
 a. 1 gm/cm³
 b. 2 gm/cm³  a. > 1
 c. 3 gm/cm³  b. < 1
 d. 4 gm/cm³  c. = 1
 d. none of the above
408. Archimedes principle states that
413. It states that mass is a commodity
 a. when a body is inversed in a that can neither be heated nor destroyed
fluid, the fluid exerts a downward with the exception of nuclear processes
force on the body whose where the conversion of mass into
magnitude is equal to the weight energy is a fundamental principle
of the displaced fluid
 a. Law of Conservation of Mass

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 b. Law of Conservation of Energy 420. Conceptualize that the heat was an

 c. Law of Conservation of Power energy form and that there was a
 d. Law of Conservation of Heat precise relationship between heat and
work.
414. The energy that stored in a system
as a result of its position in the earth’s  a. Count Rumford
gravitational field  b. Sir Humpry Davey
 c. James Prescott
 a. elastic energy  d. all of the above
 b. kinetic energy
 c. potential energy 421. Which is true:
 d. flow energy
 a. Energy is a scalar quantity
415. It involves a force deforming a solid  b. Energy is a vector quantity
body  c. Energy is vector & scalar
 d. None of the above
 a. non-elastic work
 b. non-flow work 422. It is a region enclosed by specified
 c. flow work boundaries, which may be imaginary,
 d. elastic work either fixed or moving

416. Developed the Fahrenheit scale  a. Isolated system

 b. Open system
 a. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit  c. System
 b. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit  d. None of the above
 c. Gabriel Danelle Fahrenheit
 d. Danelle Gabriel Fahrenheit 423. Amount or volume of liquid that
pass in a given limit of time
417. Developed the centigrade or
Celsius  a. Flow rate
 b. Volume
 a. Andres Celsius  c. Time
 b. Anders Celsius  d. None of the above
 c. Andrew Celsius
 d. Anthony Celsius 424. Ability to do work

418. Instrument used to measure the  a. Power

absolute pressure of the atmosphere  b. Energy
 c. Work
 a. galvanometer  d. None of the above
 b. thermometer
 c. barometer 425. Amount of heat needed to rate the
 d. pressure gages temperature of a substance by 1°C

419. A vector quantity whose direction is  a. Heat Exchange

the same as the direction of the velocity  b. Heat Engine
 c. Specific Heat
 a. Force  d. None of the above
 b. Momentum
 c. Friction 426. Study of transformation of heat
 d. Resultant energy to mechanical energy to other
forms of energy.

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 a. Thermodynamics  c. Manometer
 b. Physics  d. None of the above
 c. Mechanics
 d. None of the above 433. Work done in pushing a fluid
across a boundary, Usually into or out of
[Link] cannot be created, nor a system
destroyed, but it can be changed from
one form to another. The energy in the  a. Flow Work
universe remains constant.  b. Flow Energy
 c. Both a & b
 a. 1st Law of Energy Conservation  d. None of the above
 b. 2nd Law of Energy
Conservation 434. Which is not true about Heat (Q):
 c. 3rd Law of Energy Conservation
 d. None of the above  a. Q is positive when heat is
added to the body or system
428. Quantities that describe both  b. Q is negative when heat is
magnitude & direction rejected by the body or system
 c. Q is positive when heat is
 a. Physical Quantity rejected by the body or system
 b. Scalar Quantity  d. None of the above
 c. Vector Quantity
 d. None of the above 435. The standard reference
atmospheric pressure
429. The sum of energies of all the
molecules in a system, energies that  a. 760 mmHg
appear in several complex forms.  b. 1 atm
 c. 14.696 psia
 a. External Energy  d. All of the above
 b. Internal Energy
 c. Kinetic Energy 436. ______ is that property of a
 d. None of the above substance which remains constant if no
heat enters or leaves the substance,
430. The value of atomic charge e is while it does work or alters its volume,
but which increases or diminishes
 a. 1.60210 x 10-19 coulomb should a small amount of heat enter or
 b. 1.68910 x 10-19 coulomb leave.
 c. 1.20160 x 1019 coulomb
 d. None of the above  a. Entrophy
 b. Enthalpy
431. p1V1= p2V2  c. Specific Heat
 d. None of the above
 a. Charle's Law
 b. Boyle's Law [Link] acceleration of a particular
 c. Ideal Gas Law body is directly proportional to the
 d. Joule's Law resultant force acting on it & inversely
proportional to its mass.
432. A _______ is used to measure
atmospheric pressure.  a. Pascal's Law
 b. Joule's Law
 a. Thermometer  c. Newton's Law
 b. Barometer  d. None of the above

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438. Mass (not weight) per unit volume  c. Cp – Cv + k

 d. None of the above
 a. Specific Weight
 b. Specific Volume 445. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics on
 c. Density what principle?
 d. None of the above
 a. Conservation of Energy
439. Composite property applicable to  b. Conservation of mass
all fluids  c. Enthalpy
 d. Isometric
 a. Entropy
 b. Enthalpy 446. A system having a rigid boundary
 c. Specific Heat that energy, work and mass does not
 d. None of the above cross its boundaries

440. A classification of system in which  a. Specific Heat

mass does not cross its boundaries.  b. Specific Gravity
 c. Isolated System
 a. Nonflow System  d. Enthalpy
 b. Open System
 c. Closed System 447. Sum of the internal energy of a
 d. None of the above substance and the product of pressure
and volume.
441. Gas being heated at constant
volume is undergoing the process of.  a. Specific Heat
 b. Specific Gravity
 a. isometric  c. Isolated System
 b. specific heat  d. Enthalpy
 c. enthalpy
 d. isothermal 448. The ratio of the weight of a
substance to the weight of some
442. The heat per unit mass per degree standard substance is called?
change in temperature
 a. Specific Heat
 a. specific heat  b. Specific Gravity
 b. isometric  c. Isothermal
 c. conservation of energy  d. Specific Weight
 d. none of the above
449. Specific heat capacity in SI unit.
443. A unit of pressure used in high
vacuum technology, which is equal to  a. kJ / kg.k
1mmhg.  b. kJ / kg
 c. kN / kg
 a. specific heat  d. None of the above
 b. isometric
 c. isobaric 450. The Law of Thermodynamics that
 d. torr provides the basis for measuring the
thermodynamic property of temperature.
444. The gas constant is equal to
 a. Charle’s Law
 a. Cp – Cv  b. Boyle’s Law
 b. Cp + Cv  c. Zeroth Law

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 d. Gas Law  b. g
 c. N
 d. None of the above

MCQs Part X 457. Anything that is outside the system

boundary is called ________.
451. The pressure of the confined gas is
held constant, the volume directly  a. Surrounding
proportional to the absolute  b. Natural Environment
temperature.  c. Closed System
 d. Open System
 a. Charle’s Law
 b. Boyle’s Law 458. A Thermodynamic Term That
 c. Zeroth Law refers to any fixed region in a space
 d. Gas Law
 a. Control Volume
452. Regardless of the process, the  b. Volume
change in enthalpy firm moles of ideal  c. Density
gas is  d. Natural Gas

 a. Heat 459. The process that has no heat

 b. Enthalpy transfer
 c. Entropy
 d. Density  a. Density
 b. Isentropic Process
453. Ideal process are ________  c. Isometric Process
process  d. Adiabatic

 a. Irreversible 460. Another name of reversible

 b. Reversible adiabatic process
 c. Isothermal
 d. Isometric  a. Isentropic Process
 b. Isometric Process
454. A state occurs when a system is in  c. Isobaric Process
equilibrium  d. Isothermal Process

 a. Natural Environment 461. ______ of a Body is the absolute

 b. Closed System quantity of a matter in it.
 c. Surrounding
 d. Isentropic  a. Mass
 b. Weight
455. A state occurs in isentropic process  c. Density
 d. Volume
 a. The change in entropy is 0
 b. The change in entropy is 1 462. _______ of a body means the force
 c. The change in enthalpy is 0 of the gravity Fg on the body
 d. The change in enthalpy is 1
 a. Mass
456. The SI unit of mass  b. Weight
 c. Density
 a. kg  d. Volume

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463. The law of conservation of mass 469. The volume of a confined gas is
states that ______. held constant, the pressure is directly
proportional to the absolute
 a. mass is indestructible temperature.
 b. mass is destructible
 c. mass is indestructible  a. Charle’s Law
 d. none of the above  b. Boyle’s Law
 c. Joule’s Law
464. __________ is the energy stored  d. Specific Heat
within a body or substance by virtue of
the activity and configuration of its 470. The compression of the gas in two
molecules. or more cylinders in place of a single
cylinder compressor
 a. Internal Energy
 b. External Energy  a. Single Staging
 c. Kinetic Energy  b. Double Staging
 d. Potential Energy  c. Multistaging
 d. None of the above
465. The Product of the displacement of
the body and the component if the force 471 Is define as the ratio of the actual
in the direction of the displacement. pressure of the vapor

 a. Nonflow Work  a. Relative Humidity

 b. Flow Work  b. Humidity Ratio
 c. Work  c. Dew Point
 d. None of the above  d. Adiabatic Saturation

466. Is the energy in transit (on the 472. Heat engine deriving its power from
move) from the one body or system to the energy liberated by the explosion of
another solely because of a temperature a mixture of some hydrocarbon, in a
between the bodies or systems. gaseous or vaporized form.

 a. Work  a. Dual Combustion Engine

 b. Heat  b. Internal Combustion Engine
 c. Energy  c. External Combustion Engine
 d. None of the above  d. None of the above

467. A classification of a system in 473. Also called absolute humidity and

which mass crosses its boundaries. specific humidity.

 a. Closed System  a. Related humidity

 b. Open System  b. Humidity ratio
 c. Isolated System  c. Dew point
 d. None of the above  d. Adiabatic ratio

468. The SI unit of pressure 474. Is a steady flow process at total

constant pressure through a control
 a. Pa volume for which there is no heat?
 b. N
 c. J  a. Adiabatic Saturation Process
 d. None of the above  b. Dew point
 c. Adiabatic Ratio

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 d. None of the above  d. Heat Sink

475. Fuels that may classified 481. _______________ is the

conveniently in solid, liquid and temperature at which liquids start to boil
gaseous. or the temperature at which vapors
begin to condense.
 a. Unleaded fuel
 b. Diesel fuel  a. Saturation Temperature
 c. Fossil fuel  b. Sub cooled Liquid
 d. All of the above  c. Compressed Liquid
 d. Saturated Liquid
476. Is a general name, without specific
meaning unless the way in which it is 482. ________________ is one which
measured or define by the context. has a temperature lower than the
saturation temperature corresponding to
 a. Natural Value the existing pressure.
 b. Heating Value
 c. Burning Value  a. Saturation Temperature
 d. Internal Value  b. Sub cooled Liquid
 c. Compressed Liquid
477. Is the force of gravity on unit  d. Saturated Liquid
volume?
483. _________________ is one which
 a. Specific Weight has a pressure higher than the
 b. Specific Heat saturation pressure corresponding to the
 c. Specific Pressure existing temperature.
 d. Specific Volume
 a. Saturation Temperature
478. Give a reading as the length of  b. Sub cooled Liquid
some liquid column: water, alcohol, etc.  c. Compressed Liquid
 d. Saturated Liquid
 a. Banometer
 b. Nanometer 484. __________________ is a liquid at
 c. Thermometer the saturations which has temperature
 d. Manometer equal to the boiling point corresponding
to the existing pressure.
479. If any one or more properties of a
system change, the system is said to  a. Saturation Temperature
have undergone a _______.  b. Sub cooled Liquid
 c. Compressed Liquid
 a. Cycle  d. Saturated Liquid
 b. System
 c. Process 485. __________________ is the name
 d. None of the above given to a gaseous phase that is in
contact with the liquid phase, or that is in
480. Is a thermodynamic system that the vicinity of a state where some of it
operates continuously with only energy might be condensed.
(heat and work) crossing its boundaries?
 a) Vapor
 a. Heat Engine  b) Saturated Vapor
 b. Heat Reservoir  c) Superheated Vapor
 c. Heat Source  d) Wet Vapor

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486. ___________________ is a vapor  c) Thermo Heat

at the saturation conditions (saturation  d) None of the above
temperature and saturation pressure).
492. What is the formula to convert °C to
 a) Vapor °F?
 b) Saturated Vapor
 c) Superheated Vapor  a) °F = °C + 273
 d) Wet Vapor  b) °F = 5/9 (°C - 32)
 c) °F = 9/5 (°C)+32
487. ___________________ is a vapor  d) None of the above
having a temperature higher than the
saturation temperature corresponding to 493. What is the formula to convert °F to
the existing pressure. °C?

 a) Vapor  a) °C = °F + 273
 b) Saturated Vapor  b) °C = 5/9 (°F - 32)
 c) Superheated Vapor  c) °C = 9/5 (°F)+32
 d) Wet Vapor  d) None of the above

488. __________________ is a 494. ______________ is the base unit

combination of saturated vapor and of thermodynamics temperature.
saturated liquid.
 a) Celsius
 a) Vapor  b) Fahrenheit
 b) Saturated Vapor  c) Kelvin
 c) Superheated Vapor  d) None of the above
 d) Wet Vapor
495. __________ is the unit of force.
489. ___________________ represents
the highest pressure and highest  a) Newton
temperature at which liquid and vapor  b) Pascal
can coexist in equilibrium.  c) Hertz
 d) Joule
 a) Critical Point
 b) Boiling Point 496. __________ is the unit of pressure
 c) Quality Point and stress.
 d) None of the above
 a) Newton
490. Heat that cause change in  b) Pascal
temperature at without a change in  c) Hertz
phase.  d) Joule

 a) Sensible Heat 97. _____________ is the difference

 b) Latent Heat between the actual temperature of
 c) Thermo Heat superheated vapor and the saturation
 d) None of the above temperature for the existing pressure.

491. Heat that cause change in phase  a) Degrees of Superheat, °SH

without a change in temperature.  b) Degrees of Sub cooled, °SB
 c) Both a and b
 a) Sensible Heat  d) None of the above
 b) Latent Heat

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498. ____________is the difference 503. The first law of thermodynamics is

between the saturation temperature for based on which of the following
the given pressure and the actual sub principles?
cooled liquid temperature.
 a. Conservation of mass
 a) Degrees of Superheat, °SH  b. Conservation of energy
 b) Degrees of Sub cooled, °SB  c. Action and reaction
 c) Both a and b  d. The entropy-temperature
 d) None of the above relationship

499. ___________ is the percent by 504. Which of the following cycle is used
weight that is saturated vapor. in vapor cycle power plant?

 a) Quality, x  a. Brayton cycle

 b) Percent Moisture, y  b. Diesel cycle
 c) Vapor  c. Ericson cycle
 d) Liquid  d. Rankine cycle

500. ____________ is the percent by 505. Which of the following is not a

weight that is saturated liquid. thermodynamic property?

 a) Quality, x  a. Pressure
 b) Percent Moisture, y  b. Temperature
 c) Vapor  c. Volume
 c) Liquid  d. Phase

506. Which of the following

compressibility factor of ideal gas
MCQs Part XI  a. 1
501. How many independent properties  b. 2
are required to completely fix the  c. 1.5
equilibrium state of a pure gaseous  d. 0
compound?
507. What refers to the thermodynamic
 a. 4 properties which are dependent on the
 b. 3 amount of the substance present?
 c. 2
 d. 1  a. Extensive property
 b. Intensive properties
502. What is the value of the work done  c. Reversible properties
for a closed, reversible isometric  d. Irreversible properties
system?
508. What refers to the thermodynamic
 a. zero properties which are independent on the
 b. positive amount of the substance present?
 c. negative
 d. positive or negative  a. Extensive property
 b. Intensive properties
 c. Reversible properties
 d. Irreversible properties

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509. What is known as the total heat  b. Sensible heat

and heat content at various times in the  c. Specific heat
history?  d. entropy

 a. enthalpy 515. What is defined as the quantity of

 b. entropy heat needed to raise the temperature of
 c. internal energy one kilogram of water by one degrees
 d. latent heat Celsius?

510. What is the measure of the energy  a. Kilojoule

that is no longer available to perform  b. Btu
useful work within the current  c. Kilocalorie
environment?  d. Latent heat

 a. enthalpy 516. To what conditions does a gas

 b. entropy behave like an ideal gas?
 c. internal energy
 d. latent heat  a. low temperature and low
pressure
511. What is the temperature when  b. low temperature and high
water and vapor are in the equilibrium pressure
with the atmospheric pressure?  c. high temperature and low
pressure
 a. Ice point  d. high temperature and high
 b. Steam point pressure
 c. Critical point
 d. Freezing point 517. What Law states that the pressure
of gas is inversely proportional to its
512. What is the unique state at which volume at constant temperature?
solid, liquid and gaseous phase can go
co-exist in equilibrium?  a. Charles’ law
 b. Gay-Lussac’s Law
 a. Triple point  c. Boyle’s Law
 b. Critical point  d. Dalton’s Law
 c. Boiling point
 d. Pour point 518. What do you call a system in which
there is a flow of matter through the
513. What refers to the state at which boundary?
liquid and gaseous phases are
indistinguishable?  a. Closed system
 b. Open system
 a. Triple point  c. Isolated system
 b. Critical point  d. All of these
 c. Boiling point
 d. Pour point 519. Which of the following best
describes heat?
514. What refers to the heat needed to
change the temperature of the  a. The capacity to do work
substances without changing its  b. Forces times distances
phases?  c. Sum of thermal and chemical
energy
 a. Latent heat

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 d. An energy transfer due to  a. unity

temperature difference  b. zero
 c. infinity
520. The mechanical equivalent of heat  d. undefined
is
525. What is the area under the curve
 a. joule on a temperature –entropy diagram?
 b. calorie
 c. Btu  a. Heat
 d. Specific heat  b. work
 c. entropy
521. Burning of Gasoline initially  d. volume
requires heat before it burns
spontaneously. Which of the following 526. What happens to the internal
does not give a good explanation of this energy of water at reference
phenomenon? temperature where enthalpy is zero?

 a. the initial heat rises the  a. Becomes negative

enthalpy of the reactant  b. Becomes positive
 b. the initial heat lowers the  c. Remains constant
activation of energy of the  d. Cannot be defined
reactants
 c. the enthalpy of reactants is 527. Which of the following is the work
lower than the enthalpy of done for a closed reversible isometric
products. system?
 d. The enthalpy of the product is
lower than the enthalpy of the  a. negative
reactant  b. positive
 c. zero
522. The phenomenon of melting under  d. undefined
pressure and freezing again when the
pressure is reduced is known as 528. If the initial volume of an ideal gas
is compressed to one-half its original
 a. sublimation volume and to twice its original
 b. condensation temperature, the pressure:
 c. deposition
 d. regelation  a. doubles
 b. halves
523. Which of the following events is  c. quadruples
heat exchange involved?  d. triples

 a. when there is a phase change 529. When the expansion of

 b. when there is a chemical compression of gas takes place without
reaction transfer of heat or from the gas the
 c. when the gas expands process is called;
adiabatically
 d. when there is difference in  a. Isometric process
temperature  b. Isothermal process
 c. Isobaric process
524. What is the entropy of a pure  d. Adiabatic process
substance at a temperature of absolute
zero?

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530. Which of the following best  d. Compressed liquid

describes both Stirling and Ericson
engines? 536. Which law that states “Entropy of
all perfect crystalline solids is zero at
 a. Internal combustion engine absolute zero temperature”?
 b. External combustion engine
 c. Diesel cycle  a. Zeroth law of thermodynamics
 d. Rankine cycle  b. First law of thermodynamics
 c. Second law of
531. At steam point, the temperature of thermodynamics
water and its vapor at standard pressure  d. Third law of thermodynamics
are:
537. A 0.064 kg of octane vapor (MW =
 a. Extremes or maximum 114) is mixed with0.91 kg of air (MW =
 b. unity 29.0) in the manifold of an Engine. The
 c. in equilibrium total pressure in the manifold is 86.1
 d. undefined kPa, and a temperature is 290 K.
assume octane behaves ideally. What is
532. Who coined the word Entropy? the partial pressure of the air in the
mixture in KPa?
 a. Rudolf Clausius
 b. Lord Kelvin  a. 46.8
 c. Gabriel Volks  b. 48.6
 d. Rudolf Diesel  c. 84.6
 d. 64.8
533. What is the temperature when
water and vapor are in equilibrium with 538. Which of the following occurs in a
the atmospheric pressure? reversible polytrophic process?

 a. Ice point  a. Enthalpy remains constant

 b. Steam point  b. Internal energy does not
 c. Critical point change
 d. Freezing point  c. Some heat transfer occurs
 d. Entropy remains constant
534. When the expansion of
compression of gas takes place without 539. The change that the system that
transfer of heat to or from the gas the undergoes from one equilibrium state to
process is called another is known as

 a. reversible  a. oath
 b. adiabatic  b. process
 c. polytropic  c. enthalpy change
 d. isothermal  d. entropy change

535. What refers to a liquid whose 540. What refers to the series of states
temperature is lower than saturation through which a system passes during
temperature corresponding to the the process?
existing pressure?
 a. path
 a. Subcooled liquid  b. quasi- static steps
 b. Saturated liquid  c. reversibility moves
 c. Pure liquid  d. irreversibility moves

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541. Which of the following relations is  a. Absolute temperature

not applicable in a free expansion  b. process
process?  c. properties
 d. temperature and pressure
 a. Heat is rejected to zero
 b. Work done is zero 548. Entropy is the measure of:
 c. Change in temperature is zero
 d. Heat supplied is zero  a. The internal energy of a gas
 b. The heat capacity of a
542. What system in which neither mass substance
nor energy cross the boundaries and is  c. Randomness or disorder
not influenced by the surroundings?  d. The change of enthalpy of a
system
 a. Closed system
 b. Open system 549. What system in which there is no
 c. Isolated system exchange of matter with the surrounding
 d. All of these or mass does not cross its boundaries?

543. What is referred to by control  a. Open system

volume?  b. Closed system
 c. Isolated system
 a. An isolated system  d. Non-flow system
 b. Closed system
 c. Fixed region in space 550. What refers to a system in which
 d. Reversible process only there is a flow of mass across its
boundaries?
544. Which of the following is used in
thermal power plant?  a. Open system
 b. Closed system
 a. Brayton cycle  c. Isolated system
 b. Reversed carnot cycle  d. Non-flow system
 c. Rankine cycle
 d. Otto cycle

545. A Bell-Coleman cycle is a reversed

of which the following cycles? MCQs Part XII
551. Which of the following cannot be a
 a. Stirling cycle property of a gas?
 b. Joule cycle
 c. Carnot cycle  a. density
 d. Otto cycle  b. pressure
 c. viscosity
546. An ideal gas is compresses  d. temperature
isothermally. The enthalpy change is
552. During the adiabatic process, which
 a. Always negative of the following is the change in
 b. Always positive entropy?
 c. zero
 d. undefined  a. zero
 b. greater than zero
547. The state of a thermodynamic  c. less than zero
system is always defined by its:

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 d. infinity 559. Which of the following is the other

term used for enthalpy-entropy
553. Which of the following values diagram?
characterize the state of the system?
 a. Enthalpy diagram
 a. cycle  b. Mollier diagram
 b. process  c. Steam diagram
 c. property  d. Entropy chart
 d. enthalpy
560. What is used for predicting the
554. Which of the following is least behavior of non-ideal gases?
efficient?
 a. Compressibility factor
 a. Gas turbine  b. Expansivity factor
 b. Diesel engine  c. Emissivity factor
 c. Carnot engine  d. Van-d-whal’s factor
 d. Gasoline engine
561. Which of the following
555. Which of the following engines is thermodynamic devices operates the
the most efficient? reverse of the heat engine?

 a. Gas turbine  a. Thermal pump

 b. Diesel engine  b. Thermal evaporator
 c. Carnot engine  c. Thermal condenser
 d. Gasoline engine  d. Thermal equilibrant

556. Which of the following engines is 562. What is another term used for
the most efficient? isometric processes?

 a. Isobaric expansion  a. Isochoric process

 b. Adiabatic compression  b. Iolytropic process
 c. Adiabatic expansion  c. Isothermal process
 d. Isothermal expansion  d. Reversible process

557. Who coined the word energy? 563. Which of the following engines was
introduced by a German engineer,
 a. James Joule Nickolas Otto?
 b. Thomas Young
 c. Rudolf Diesel  a. Gasoline engine
 d. Lord Kelvin  b. Diesel engine
 c. Gas turbine
558. Which of the following laws of  d. Thermal engine
thermodynamic which leads to the
definition of entropy? 564. If two systems are in the thermal
equilibrium with a third system, then
 a. First law they must be in thermal equilibrium with
 b. Second law each other.
 c. Third law
 d. Law of conservation of energy  a. Zeroth Law of
Thermodynamics
 b. First Law of Thermodynamics

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 c. Second Law of 571. Occurs when the vapor pressure

Thermodynamics equals the atmospheric pressure
 d. Third Law of Thermodynamics
 a. Boiling
565. The heat absorbed by a unit mass  b. Melting
of a material at its holding point in order  c. Freezing
to convert the material into a gas at the  d. Vaporizing
same temperature.
572. As temperature goes to “0”, the
 a. Latent Heat of Sublimation entropy approaches a constant
 b. Latent Heat of Vaporization
 c. Latent Heat of Fusion  a. Zeroth Law of
 d. Latent Heat Of Condensation Thermodynamics
 b. First Law of Thermodynamics
566. A thermodynamic process in which  c. Second Law of
entropy is conserved Thermodynamics
 d. Third Law of Thermodynamics
 a. isentropic
 b. adiabatic 573. An ideal gas is compressed in a
 c. isothermal cylinder so well insulated that there is
 d. polytropic essentially no heat transfer. The
temperature of gas
567. A control volume refers to what?
 a. Remains constant
 a. A fixed region in space  b. increases
 b. A reversible process  c. decreases
 c. an isolated system  d. is basically zero
 d. a specified mass
574. Occurring at fixed temperature
568. Which of the following is commonly
used as liquid absorbent?  a. isentropic
 b. Adiabatic
 a. Silica gel  c. Isothermal
 b. Activated alumina  d. polytropic
 c. Ethylene glycol
 d. None of these 575. The changing of solid directly to
vapor without passing through liquid
569. One for which no heat is gained or state is called
lost
 a. Evaporation
 a. Isentropic  b. Vaporization
 b. Adiabatic  c. Sublimation
 c. Isothermal  d. Condensation
 d. Polytropic
576. The phase transition of a liquid to a
570. A law relating the pressure, solid
temperature and volume of an ideal gas
 a. Solidification
 a. Gay-Lussac’s Law  b. Freezing
 b. Ideal gas Law  c. Fusion
 c. Charles’ Law  d. All of these
 d. Boyle’s Law

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577. It is an energy flux, equal to the  d. Thermal Radiation

rate of energy flow per unit area per unit
time across some surface. 583. At Equilibrium, the radiation emitted
must equal the radiation absorbed.
 a. Irradiance
 b. Radiant Intensity  a. Boyle’s Law
 c. Luminosity  b. Planck’s Law
 d. Brightness  c. Kirchoff’s Law
 d. Joule’s Law
578. The volume of a gas under
constant pressure increases or 584. The theory that heat consisted of a
decrease with temperature. fluid, which could be transferred from
one body to another, but not “created” or
 a. Gay- Lussac’s Law “destroyed”.
 b. Ideal Gas Law
 c. Charles’ Law  a. Clausius Theorem
 d. Boyle’s Law  b. Caloric Theory
 c. Joules Law
579. The molecular number density of  d. Newton’s Law of cooling
an ideal gas at standard temperature
and pressure in cm3 585. The volume of a gas is directly
proportional to the number of molecules
 a. Froude number of the gas.
 b. Loschmidt number
 c. Mach number  a. Ideal gas law
 d. Reynold number  b. Boyle-Mariotte Law
 c. Avogadro’s Hypothesis
580. A temperature scale whose zero  d. Gay-Lussac’s Law of
point is absolute zero, the temperature combining Volumes
of “0” entropy at which all molecular
motion stops. 586. For a body cooling in a draft, the
rate of heat loss is proportional to the
 a. Celsius difference in temperature between the
 b. Fahrenheit body and its surroundings.
 c. Kelvin
 d. Rankine  a. Nemst Effect
 b. Caloric Theory
581. The thermal radiation emitted by a  c. Joule’s Law
blackbody heated to a given  d. Newton’s Law of Cooling
temperature.
587. It is the intensity of a radiating
 a. Gamma Radiation source.
 b. Black Body Radiation
 c. Electromagnetic Radiation  a. Specific Brightness
 d. Alpha Radiation  b. Radiance
 c. Surface Brightness
582. The radiation emitted by a body as  d. All of these
a result of its temperature.
588. This law of thermodynamics
 a. Blackbody Radiation prohibits the construction of a perpetual
 b. Thermal Inversion motion machine “of the second kind”
 c. Thermionic Inversion

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 a. Zeroth Law of 594. Energy can neither created nor

Thermodynamics destroyed. It can only change forms.
 b. First Law of Thermodynamics
 c. Second Law of  a. Conservation of Mass Principle
Thermodynamics  b. Conservation of Energy
 d. Third Law of Thermodynamics Principle
 c. Conservation of Momentum
589. A cylinder contains oxygen at a Principle
pressure of 10 atm and a temperature of  d. Conservation of Heat Principle
300 K. The volume of the cylinder is 10
liters. What is the mass of the oxygen in 595. Executes the entire cycle in just
grams? Molecular weight (MW) of two strokes the power stroke and the
oxygen is 32 g/mole? compression stroke.

 a. 125.02  a. One-stroke engine

 b. 130.08  b. Two-stroke engine
 c. 135.05  c. Four-stroke engine
 d. 120.04  d. Eight-stroke engine

590. It is the deposition of radiant 596. It is the unbalanced force

energy as heat into an absorbing body. developed in a turbo jet engine that is
caused by the difference in the
 a. Radiation momentum of the low-velocity air
 b. Ionization entering the engine and the high velocity
 c. Convection exhaust gases leaving the engine.
 d. Insolation
 a. Fall
591. It is a process during which the  b. Lift
pressure remains constant  c. Drag
 d. Thrust
 a. Adiabatic
 b. Isentropic 597. Which of the engine is used for
 c. Isobaric fighter bombers?
 d. Isotropic
 a. Turbojet
592. Diffusion due to thermal motion is  b. Pulsejet
called  c. Rockets
 d. Ramjet
 a. dilation
 b. infusion 598. The Science of Energy
 c. effusion
 d. dispersion  a. Thermionics
 b. Kinetics
593. The rate at which this is quantity  c. Thermodynamics
passes through a fixed boundary per  d. Geophysics
unit time
599. It is used for gas turbines which
 a. Flux operates on an open cycle where both
 b. Existence the compression and expansion
 c. Irradiance processes take place in rotating
 d. All of these machinery.

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 a. Dual Cycle 21. Density

 b. Otto Cycle
 c. Carnot Cycle 22. Specific properties
 d. Brayton Cycle 23. Thermal

600. Which of the following laws of 24. Mechanical

thermodynamic which leads to the 25. Phase
definition of entropy?
26. Chemical
 a. First law
27. State postulate
 b. Second law
 c. Third law 28. Kj
 d. Law of conservation of energy
29. Simple compressible
30. Process
31. Path
Answers Sheet 32. 2
MCQs Part I 33. Quasi-state or quasi- equilibrium
process
1. Heat power
34. Control mass
2. Lord Kelvin
35. Control volume
3. First law of Thermodynamics
36. Thermal, phase, mechanical and
4. Second law of Thermodynamics chemical
5. Classical thermodynamics 37. Cycle
6. Statistical thermodynamics 38. Isothermal process
7. System 39. Isobaric process
8. Conservation of energy 40. Isochoric or isometric process
9. Surroundings 41. Remains constant
10. Boundary 42. No change with time
11. Closed system 43. No change with location
12. Isolated system 44. Steady-flow process
13. Open system 45. Internal energy
14. All of the above 46. Microscopic form of energy
15. Control surface 47. Macroscopic form of energy
16. Property 48. Thomas Young
17. Intensive and extensive 49. Translational energy
18. Intensive property 50. Rotational kinetic energy
19. Extensive property
20. Mass

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82. Kg ∙ m^2/s^2
MCQs Part II 83. 4.184
51. Spin energy 84. 10^-7
52. Sensible energy 85. Law of conservation of energy
53. Latent energy 86. Thermodynamics
54. Chemical energy 87. Enthalpy
55. Nuclear energy 88. Heat capacity
56. Heat transfer and work 89. Molar heat
57. Zeroth law of thermodynamics 90. Specific heat
58. R.H. Fowler 91. Hess’s Law
59. Kelvin scale 92. Entropy
60. Rankine scale 93. Joule/Kelvin
61. Ideal gas temperature scale 94. Enthalpy
62. Constant-volume gas thermometer 95. Compressed or subcooled
63. Coulomb repulsion 96. Saturated
64. Constant-volume gas thermometer 97. Saturated
65. Triple point of water 98. Superheated
66. Pressure 99. Pure
67. N/m^2 100. Saturation temperature
68. 14.223 psi
69. Pa
70. 10^5
MCQs Part III
101. Saturation pressure
71. 101,325
102. Heat of fusion
72. Absolute pressure
103. Heat of vaporation
73. Vacuum pressure
104. Latent heat
74. Gage
105. 333.7 kJ/kg
75. Pitot tube
106. 2257.1 kJ/kg
76. Barometer
107. Maximum point
77. 760
108. Sublimation
78. Pascal’s Law
109. Kilocalorie
79. Bourdon pressure gage
110. BTU
80. Heat
111. 1054
81. Joule

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112. Heat 143. It is independent with the surface

condition of the material
113. Quality
144. 1
114. Pressure, temperature and specific
volume 145. 1
115. Gas constant 146. Stefan-Boltzmann law
116. Universal gas constant to molar 147. Conservation of energy principle
mass
148. Energy balance
117. 8.314
149. Mass and energy content of the
118. Molar mass control volume
119. Specific heat 150. Network output to total heat input
120. Specific heat capacity
121. 4185
122. J/kg∙ °C
MCQs Part IV
151. Second law of thermodynamics
123. Specific volume of density
152. Kelvin-Planck statement
124. Adiabatic
153. Combustion efficiency
125. Not to be passed
154. Overall efficiency
126. All of the above
155. Energy efficiency rating
127. Radiation
156. Second law of thermodynamics
128. Convection
157. Clausius statement
129. Conduction
158. Perpetual-motion machine
130. Conservation of mass principle
159. Perpetual-motion machine of the
131. PV = nRT
first kind
132. Both heat transfer = 0; isentropic:
160. Perpetual motion machine of the
reversible
second kind
133. PV = nRT
161. 1824
134. Thermal conductivity
162. Sadi Carnot
135. Greenhouse effect
163. 4
136. Boundary work
164. Two isothermal and two adiabatic
137. 0.1 to 100 µm
165. Carnot efficiency
138. Emissive power
166. Carnot heat engine
139. Kirchhoff’s radiation law
167. Carnot principle
140. Black body
168. Second law of thermodynamics
141. Gray body
169. Isentropic
142. Less than
170. True

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171. Internally reversible, adiabatic

process
172. Third law of thermodynamics MCQs Part V
173. Third law of thermodynamics 201. movement of heat
174. Entropy balance relation 202. Kelvin
175. Second law of thermodynamics 203. heat
176. Heat 204. latent heat
177. It is always zero 205. thermal expansion
178. Its saturated vapor pressure equals 206. thermal stress
to the atmospheric pressure
207. Internal Energy
179. 0 degree Celsius and one
atmosphere 208. Specific Heat Capacity

180. Zero 209. Equilibrium Vapor Pressure

181. Boyle’s Law 210. temperature

182. V1/T1=V2/T2 211. Phase diagram

183. Thickness of material/ thermal 212. Internal Energy

conductivity of material 213. calorie
184. 186,000 miles/second 214. temperature
185. Eff = 1 – (T2/T1) 215. Zero-Point Energy
186. EER = 3.42 COP 216. 10 K
187. Absorbed heat and work required 217. Helmholtz free energy
188. Law of Dulong and Petit 218. 0.67 m
189. Avogadro’s 219. 0.18 in
190. Perfect gas 220. 1400 J
191. All of the above 221. Gibbs free energy
192. Amagat’s law 222. heat
193. Throttling process 223. relative humidity
194. Joule-Thomson coefficient 224. Sublimation
195. Sink reservoir 225. Convection
196. Isentropic flow 226. change
197. Ignition temperature 227. three times
198. Dalton’s law 228. increases
199. Joule’s law 229. no pressure
200. An ideal gas is a gas that is not a 230. the relative humidity decreases
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231. convection current 261. thermopile

232. blackbody 262. any holes in the object expand as
well
233. Conduction
263. one BTU
234. gram-mole
264. pressure
235. Maxwell speed Distribution
265. Sir James Dewar
236. Forced Convection
266. Isobaric
237. point function
267. raising the temp and lowering the
238. path function temp
239. boundary 268. the second law of thermodynamics
240. control mass 269. Clausius statement
241. control volume 270. mean free path
242. -256 271. 9.86 x 10^4 N/m^2
243. heat enters the substance. 272. 6 x 10^15 tons
244. 15 273. standard atmospheric pressure
245. shape of the object 274. Pascal’s law
246. metals 275. Gauge Pressure
247. glass 276. 62.4 lb
248. increases 277. surface tension
249. Kelvin temperature 278. Torricelli’s Theorem
250. reduced by half 279. diffusion
280. 1948

MCQs Part VI 281. dew point

282. cycle
251. it increases by a factor of square
root of 2 283. Bulk Properties
252. entropy 284. Joule-Thomson process
253. Isochoric process 285. Otto Cycle
254. isobaric 286. 24.6 J/K
255. increases 287. conservation of energy
256. Closed system 288. 1700 J
257. normal boiling point 289. 12 kJ
258. wet steam 290. 17.66 %
259. flash steam 291. Sensible heat
260. dryness fraction 292. Joseph Black

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293. Latent Heat 323. 286

294. Third Law of thermodynamics 324. Both a & b
295. 1/860 W.h 325. 209 psia
296. Polytropic process 326. 416
297. steady flow 327. 999 K
298. Carnot Cycle 328. 3800
299. 733.33 kPa 329. 1620 °R
300. Sadi Carnot 330. 0.2148 lb
331. 121
332. 100
MCQs Part VII 333. 125 J
301. 13.33 ft^3/lbm
334. 443 kPa
302. 3300 lbf-ft/lbm
335. 48.75 N
303. 24.9 ft^3
336. 4875 j
304. z = pV/ RT
337. 300 kJ
305. 1.79 kJ/ kg-˚C
338. 1
306. 2 x10^6 kJ
339. 485
307. 3.16 kg
340. 672
308. 1.1577 BTU/lbm-˚R
341. 298.645
309. 15.7 BTU
342. 65.23 psi
310. 0.179 K/s
343. 70
311. 4474.23 N
344. 450 N
312. 2474.23 N
345. 900,000lb/hr;625 ft/s981 N
313. 42.41 ft^3
346. 981 N
314. 28.6 psia
347. T2=1.620ºR, ▲H = 122.83 Btu
315. 108 hp
348. 70.658 kpa
316. W = mRTln (V2/V1)
349. 900,000 lb/hr;625 ft/s
317. 1124 cal
350. 11,772 N-m and 6.26m/s
318. -364 BTU/lbm
319. 12 kJ
320. 0.02 ft^3/lbm MCQs Part VIII
321. 66 kgf 351. 10m/s
322. 1000 kgf/m3 352. 217.17 kpa

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353. 796.32 L 385. 1378.7 kJ

354. 7.85 386. -1384.7 kJ
355. 375 kg/s 387. 96%
356. 87°C 388. 97.6%,2713 kJ/kg
357. 0.085 m³/min 389. 14026.5 m³
358. 24m/s 390. 126m³
359. 33.9 ft 391. 54.60%
360. 625 fpm 392. 190 in³
361. 50 lbm 393. 217.7 kPa
362. 33.9 ft 394. 62850 joules
363. 1.38 395. 419 000 joules
364. -420Btu 396. 2238 watts
365. 7.9 °C 397. 9 Newton’s
366. 1.3 x 108 J 398. 0.998 hp
367. -540 J 399. 1.16 kcal
368. 0.77 kg liter-1 400. 440 cal
369. 11,120N
370. 5.18 l
371. 18 kg
MCQs Part IX
401. Thermodynamics
372. 111 psi
402. Boyle’s Law
373. 1214Btu / lb
403. 6.0225 x 10^23 mol-1
374. 394 lb
404. all of the above
375. –1664 kJ/min
405. isolated system
376. 7.849 ft3
406. evaporation
377. 1.356
407. 1 gm/cm³
378. 339.4 K
408. when a body is inversed in a fluid,
379. 1620°R
the fluid exerts a upward force on the
380. 710°R body whose magnitude is equal to the
weight of the displaced fluid.
381. 265.4°C, 430.7kJ/kg, 71.4kJ/kg,
1.0327kJ/(kg)(K),502.1 kJ/kg 409. solid
382. 204.2°C, -703.2 kJ/kg, -84.15 410. V = C
kJ/kg, -1.7505 kJ/(kg)(K),-787.4 kJ/kg
411. specific heat
383. 95.20%
412. > 1
384. 95.56%

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413. Law of Conservation of Mass 445. Conservation of Energy

414. potential energy 446. Isolated System
415. elastic work 447. Enthalpy
416. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit 448. Specific Gravity
417. Anders Celsius 449. kJ / kg.k
418. barometer 450. Zeroth Law
419. Momentum
420. all of the above
421. Energy is a scalar quantity
MCQs Part X
451. Charle’s Law
422. System
452. Heat
423. Flow rate
453. Reversible
424. Energy
454. Natural Environment
425. Specific Heat
455. The change in entropy is 0
426. Thermodynamics
456. kg
427. 1st Law of Energy Conservation
457. Surrounding
428. Vector Quantity
458. Control Volume
429. Internal Energy
459. Adiabatic
430. 1.60210 x 10-19 coulomb
460. Isentropic Process
431. Boyle's Law
461. Mass
432. Barometer
462. Weight
433. Both a & b
463. mass is indestructible
434. Q is positive when heat is rejected
by the body or system 464. Internal Energy
435. All of the above 465. Work
436. Entrophy 466. Heat
437. Newton's Law 467. Open System
438. Density 468. Pa
439. Enthalpy 469. Boyle’s Law
440. Closed System 470. Multistaging
441. isometric 471. Relative Humidity
442. specific heat 472. Internal Combustion Engine
443. torr 473. Humidity ratio
444. Cp – Cv 474. Adiabatic Saturation Process

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475. Fossil fuel 505. Phase

476. Heating Value 506. 1
477. Specific Weight 507. Extensive property
478. Manometer 508. Intensive properties
479. Process 509. enthalpy
480. Heat Engine 510. entropy
481. Saturation Temperature 511. Steam point
482. Sub cooled Liquid 512. Triple point
483. Compressed Liquid 513. Critical point
484. Saturated Liquid 514. Sensible heat
485. Vapor 515. Kilocalorie
486. Saturated Vapor 516. high temperature and low pressure
487. Superheated Vapor 517. Boyle’s Law
488. Wet Vapor 518. Open system
489. Critical Point 519. An energy transfer due to
temperature difference
490. Sensible Heat
520. joule
491. Latent Heat
521. the enthalpy of reactants is lower
492. momentum than the enthalpy of products.
493. °C = 5/9 (°F - 32) 522. regelation
494. Kelvin 523. when the gas expands adiabatically
495. Newton 524. zero
496. Pascal 525. Heat
497. Degrees of Superheat, °SH 526. Becomes negative
498. Degrees of Sub cooled, °SB 527. zero
499. Quality, x 528. quadruples
500. Percent Moisture, y 529. Adiabatic process
530. External combustion engine

MCQs Part XI 531. in equilibrium

532. Rudolf Clausius
501. 2
533. Steam point
502. zero
534. adiabatic
503. Conservation of energy
535. Subcooled liquid
504. Rankine cycle
536. Third law of thermodynamics

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537. 84.6 566. isentropic

538. Some heat transfer occurs 567. A fixed region in space
539. process 568. Ethylene glycol
540. path 569. Adiabatic
541. Change in temperature is zero 570. Ideal gas Law
542. Isolated system 571. Boiling
543. Fixed region in space 572. Third Law of Thermodynamics
544. Rankine cycle 573. increases
545. Joule cycle 574. Isothermal
546. zero 575. Sublimation
547. properties 576. All of these
548. Randomness or disorder 577. Luminosity
549. Closed system 578. Charles’ Law
550. Open system 579. Loschmidt number
580. Kelvin
581. Black Body Radiation
MCQs Part XII 582. Thermal Radiation
583. Kirchoff’s Law
551. viscosity 584. Caloric Theory
552. zero 585. Avogadro’s Hypothesis
553. enthalpy 586. Newton’s Law of Cooling
554. Gasoline engine 587. All of these
555. Carnot engine 588. Second Law of Thermodynamics
556. Isobaric expansion 589.
557. Thomas Young 130.08 {(10atm)(10)(32)/(0.0821)(300K)
}
558. Second law
590. Insolation
559. Mollier diagram
591. Isobaric
560. Compressibility factor
592. effusion
561. Thermal pump
593. All of these
562. Isochoric process
594. Conservation of Energy Principle
563. Gasoline engine
595. Two-stroke engine
564. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
596. Thrust
565. Latent Heat of Vaporization
597. Turbojet

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598. Thermodynamics
599. Brayton Cycle
600. Second law

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