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Tutorial question on Chapter Three

The document contains a series of tutorial questions related to thermodynamics, specifically focusing on properties and behaviors of water and gases under various conditions. Topics include boiling points, phase changes, energy requirements for vaporization, and calculations involving pressure and temperature. The questions aim to deepen understanding of concepts such as quality, specific volume, and the behavior of substances in different states.

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Tutorial question on Chapter Three

The document contains a series of tutorial questions related to thermodynamics, specifically focusing on properties and behaviors of water and gases under various conditions. Topics include boiling points, phase changes, energy requirements for vaporization, and calculations involving pressure and temperature. The questions aim to deepen understanding of concepts such as quality, specific volume, and the behavior of substances in different states.

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Tutorial Questions for Chapter Three

1. Is it true that water boils at higher temperature at higher pressure? Explain.


2. What is the difference between the critical point and the triple point?
3. Why do frozen water pipes tend to burst?
4. In what kind of pot will a given volume of water boil at a higher temperature: a tall and
narrow one or a short and wide one? Explain.
5. What is quality? Does it have any meaning in the superheated vapour region?
6. Is it possible to have water vapour at -10 ℃?
7. Which process requires more energy: completely vaporising 1 kg of saturated liquid
water at 1 atm pressure or completely vaporising 1 kg of saturated liquid water at 8 atm
pressure?
8. Determine the quality of a two-phase liquid–vapour mixture of water at 20℃ with a
specific volume of 20 m3/kg.
9. A rigid tank contains 10 kg of water at 90℃. If 8 kg of the water is in the liquid form
and the rest is in the vapour form, determine (a) the pressure in the tank and (b) the
volume of the tank.
10. Determine the temperature of water at a state of P = 0.5 MPa and h = 2890 kJ/kg.
11. Complete this tables for water:
12. Determine the missing properties and the phase descriptions in the following table for
water:

13. The gauge pressure of an automobile tire is measured to be 210 kPa before a trip and
220 kPa after the trip at a location where the atmospheric pressure is 95 kPa. Assuming
the volume of the tire remains constant and the air temperature before the trip is 25℃,
determine air temperature in the tire after the trip.
14. Does hfg change with pressure? How?
15. What is quality? Does it have any meaning in the superheated vapour region?
16. A two-phase liquid–vapour mixture of a substance has a pressure of 150 bar and
occupies a volume of 0.2 m3. The masses of saturated liquid and vapour present are 3.8
kg and 4.2 kg, respectively. Determine the mixture specific volume in m3/kg.
17. A vertical circular cylinder holds a 20 cm of liquid water and 100 cm of vapour. If p =
200 kPa, calculate its specific volume.
18. Water vapour is heated in a closed, rigid tank from saturated vapour at 160℃ to a final
temperature of 400℃. Determine the initial and final pressures, in bar, and sketch the
process on T–v and p–v diagrams.
19. In the absence of compressed liquid tables, how is the specific volume of a compressed
liquid at a given P and T determined?
20. What is the difference between R and Ru? How are these two related?
21. Water is being heated in a vertical piston–cylinder device. The piston has a mass of 40
kg and a cross-sectional area of 150 cm2. If the local atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa,
determine the temperature at which the water starts boiling.
22. A 400-L rigid tank contains 5 kg of air at 25℃. Determine the reading on the pressure
gauge if the atmospheric pressure is 97 kPa.
23. The pressure gauge on a 2.5-m3 oxygen tank reads 500 kPa. Determine the amount of
oxygen in the tank if the temperature is 28℃ and the atmospheric pressure is 97 kPa.
24. A piston-cylinder device initially contains 50 L of liquid water at 408C and 200 kPa.
Heat is transferred to the water at constant pressure until the entire liquid is vaporized.
a. What is the mass of the water?
b. What is the final temperature?
c. Determine the total enthalpy change.
d. Show the process on a T-v diagram with respect to saturation lines.
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25. A 1-m tank containing air at 10℃ and 350 kPa is connected through a valve to another
tank containing 3 kg of air at 35℃ and 200 kPa. Now the valve is opened, and the entire
system is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium with the surroundings, which are at
20℃. Determine the volume of the second tank and the final equilibrium pressure of
air.

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