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1. The document contains 6 problems involving concepts in physics such as pressure, density, acceleration, energy, and work. The problems can be solved using relevant equations from mechanics and thermodynamics. 2. Problem 4 involves calculating the force exerted on a gas by atmospheric pressure using the diameter and mass of a piston, the pressure exerted raises the piston a given distance allowing work and change in potential energy to be calculated. 3. Problem 6 calculates the kinetic energy of a 1250 kg automobile traveling at 40 m/s and the work required to bring it to a stop, verifying that kinetic and potential energy have SI units of joules.

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1. The document contains 6 problems involving concepts in physics such as pressure, density, acceleration, energy, and work. The problems can be solved using relevant equations from mechanics and thermodynamics. 2. Problem 4 involves calculating the force exerted on a gas by atmospheric pressure using the diameter and mass of a piston, the pressure exerted raises the piston a given distance allowing work and change in potential energy to be calculated. 3. Problem 6 calculates the kinetic energy of a 1250 kg automobile traveling at 40 m/s and the work required to bring it to a stop, verifying that kinetic and potential energy have SI units of joules.

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1. Pressures up to 3000 bar are measured with a dead-weight gauge. The piston diameter is 4
mm. What is the approximate mass in kg of the weights required?

2. The reading on a mercury manometer at 298.15 K (25°C) (open to the atmosphere at one
end) is 56.38 cm. The local acceleration of gravity is 9.832 m se2. Atmospheric pressure is
10 1.78 kPa. What is the absolute pressure in kPa being measured? The density of mercury
at 298.15 K (25°C) is 13.534 g/m3

3. An instrument to measure the acceleration of gravity on Mars is constructed of a spring


from which is suspended a mass of 0.40 kg. At a place on earth where the local
acceleration of gravity is 9.81 m s-2, the spring extends 1.08 cm. When the instrument
package is landed on Mars, it radios the information that the spring is extended 0.40 cm.
What is the Martian acceleration of gravity?

4. A gas is confined by a piston 10 cm in diameter, on which rests a weight. The mass of the
piston and weight together is 30 kg. The local acceleration of gravity is 9.813 m s-2, and
atmospheric pressure is 101.22 kPa.
(a) What is the force in newtons exerted on the gas by the atmosphere, the piston, and
the weight, assuming no friction between the piston and cylinder?
(b) What is the pressure of the gas in kPa?
(c) If the gas in the cylinder is heated, it expands, pushing the piston and weight
upward. If the piston and weight are raised 0.83 m, what is the work done by the gas
in kJ? What is the change in potential energy of the piston and weight?

5. Verify that the SI unit of kinetic and potential energy is the joule.

6. An automobile having a mass of 1250 kg is traveling at 40 m s-1. What is its kinetic


energy in kJ? How much work must be done to bring it to a stop?

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