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This document contains a thermodynamics activity with 20 multiple choice problems involving concepts like work, pressure, volume, temperature, ideal gases, and polytropic processes. Students are asked to solve each problem showing their work, and expressing final answers with two decimal places and appropriate units. Sample problems include calculating work required to compress a spring, lift a beam, and accelerate a car from rest to 100 km/h. The document provides the problems, identifies the course and instructor, and is intended as a study or practice activity for students.

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Thermodynamics Sample Problem

This document contains a thermodynamics activity with 20 multiple choice problems involving concepts like work, pressure, volume, temperature, ideal gases, and polytropic processes. Students are asked to solve each problem showing their work, and expressing final answers with two decimal places and appropriate units. Sample problems include calculating work required to compress a spring, lift a beam, and accelerate a car from rest to 100 km/h. The document provides the problems, identifies the course and instructor, and is intended as a study or practice activity for students.

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METD0213 | Thermodynamics 1

ACTIVITY 2

SET C

Name: __________________________________________________________ Program, Year and Section: ______________

I. Solve the following problems. Express your final answer with two decimal digit and required units. Show your complete
solution in separate sheets.

1. A spring whose spring constant is 3.65 kN/cm has an initial force of 4.62 kN acting on it. Determine the work, in kJ,
required to compress it another 3 cm.

2. A construction crane lifts a prestressed concrete beam weighing 3 tons from the ground to the top of piers that are 25 ft
above the ground. Determine the amount of work done considering the beam as the system. Express the answer in Btu.

3. If 13.5 kJ of work is required to pump 1.2 m3/min of water without change in pressure, how may meters will the water be
elevated vertically against gravity?

4. Determine the energy required, in kJ, to accelerate an 850-kg car from rest to 100 km/h on a level road.

5. If 15.5 kJ of work has been used to accelerate 2.5 m3 of water in 2 min from 10 m/s initial velocity without changing the
pressure, what has been the final velocity of the water?

6. Determine the power required for a 1150-kg car to climb a 100-m-long uphill road with a slope of 30° (from horizontal) in
12 s from 35 m/s to a final velocity of 5 m/s. Disregard friction, air drag, and rolling resistance.

7. A volume of 0.25 m3 of air at 150 kPa and 12°C is contained in a gas-tight, frictionless piston-cylinder device. The air is
initially at 600 kPa pressure. During the process, heat is transferred such that the temperature inside the cylinder remains
constant. Calculate the work output during this process.

8. A piston-cylinder device initially contains 0.07 m3 of nitrogen gas at 135 kPa and 120°C. The nitrogen is now expanded
polytropically to a state of 100 kPa and 100°C. Determine the boundary work done during this process.

9. A piston-cylinder device contains ideal gas initially at 150 kPa and 0.55 m3. The helium is now compressed in a polytropic
process to 400 kPa and two-thirds of the initial volume. Assume negligible change in temperature. Determine the boundary
work done during this process.

10. A piston-cylinder device initially contains 0.15 m3 of air initially at 2 MPa and 350 °C. Determine the boundary work for
each process if (a) the air is first expanded at constant pressure to 0.30 m 3, then (b) compressed polytropically with a
polytropic exponent of 1.25 to the initial pressure, and finally (c) compressed isothermally to the initial state.

Past ME Board Problems

II. Solve the following problems. Express your final answer with two decimal digit and required units. Show your
complete solution in separate sheets.

11. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as the top boundary. The gas is heated and expands from a volume
of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3 at a constant pressure of 200 kPa. Calculate the work done by the system.

12. A piston-cylinder system contains a gas which expands under a constant pressure of 1200 lb/ft2. If the piston is
displaced at 1 ft during the process, and the piston diameter is 2 ft, what is the work done by the gas on the piston?

13. If 6 liters of a gas at a pressure of 100 kPaa are compressed reversibly according to PV 2 = C, until the volume becomes 2
liters. Find the final pressure.

Department of Mechanical Engineering Engr. Dan William C. Martinez, MSME


METD0213 | Thermodynamics 1

14. How much work is necessary to compress air in an insulated cylinder from 0.20 m 3 to 0.01 m3. Use T1 = 20°C and P1 =
100 kPa. (For air: n = 1.4)

15. Work done by a substance in reversible nonflow manner in accordance with V = 100/P ft3, where P is in psia. Evaluate
the work done on or by the substance as the pressure increases from 10 psia to 100 psia.

16. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as the top boundary. The gas is heated and expands from a volume
of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3. The pressure varies such that PV = constant and the initial pressure is 200 kPa. Calculate the work
done by the system.

17. During the polytropic process of an ideal gas, the state changes from 138 kPa and 5°C to 827 kPa and 171°C. Find the
value of n.

18. A gas at 1 atmospheric pressure originally occupies a volume of 20 ft 3. The gas is polytropically compressed with n =
1.15 until the pressure is 48.51 psia. What work is required for this compression?

19. If 0.5 kg of nitrogen with an initial volume of 170 liters and a pressure of 2070 kPaa expand in accordance with the law
PVn = constant to a final volume of 850 liters and a pressure of 275 kPaa. What would be the work done by the gas?

20. What horsepower is required to isothermally compress 800 ft3 of air per minute from 14.7 psia to 120 psia?

Department of Mechanical Engineering Engr. Dan William C. Martinez, MSME

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