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PAST BOARD QUESTION

How does an adiabatic process compare isentropic process?

A.Adiabatic: Heat transfer = 0, Isentropic:transfer = 0

B.Adiabatic: Heat transfer = 0, Isentropic: transfer = 0
C.Adiabatic: Reversible, Isentropic: Not reversible
D.Both: Heat transfer = 0; Isentropic: Reversible

Answer: D

102. During an adiabatic, internally reversible process, what is true about the change in entropy?

A. It is always zero
B. It is always less than zero
C. It is always greater than zero
D. It is temperature-dependent

Answer: A

103. For an irreversible process, what is true about the change in entropy of the system and surroundings?

A. ds = dq/dt
B. ds=0
C. ds > 0
D. ds <0

Answer: C

104. By decreasing the temperature sink of Carnot cycle, which of the following will not be affected?

A. efficiency
B. work
C. heat added
D. heat rejected

Answer: C. heat added

105. The efficiency cycle depends upon the

A. pressure
B. entropy
C. volume
D. temperature

Answer: D. temperature

106. Is the heat required in a constant-pressure process completely vaporize a unit mass of liquid at a given
temperature.

A. latent heat of vaporization

B. enthalpy of transformation
C. enthalpy of vaporization
D. all of the above

Answer: D. all of the above

107. Is a commonly used device for measuring temperature differences or high temperatures.

A. Thermistor
B. Thermocouple
C. Bimetallic strip
D. Mercury glass

Answer: B. Thermocouple

108. The science and technology concerned with precis measuring energy and enthalpy.

A. Thermodynamic
B. Chemistry
C. Calorimetry
D. None of the above

Answer: C. Calorimetry

109. The efficiencies of all reversible heat engines operating between the same reservoirs blank.

A. differ
B. are the same
C. are unequal
D. None of the above

Answer: B. are the same

110. A process with no heat transfer is known as blank.

A. isobaric process
B. adiabatic process
c. isothermal process
D. isometric process

Answer: B. adiabatic process

111. The relative density of a substance is the ratio of its density to the density of blank.

A. mercury
B. oil
C. gas
D. water

Answer: D. water

112. What is required to raise the temperature of 1 lb of water from 32° to 212 °F?

A. 144 Btu
B. 180 Btu
C. 970.3 Btu
D. Saturated heat

Answer: B. 180 Btu

113. For which type of process does the equation do hold?

A. Irreversible
B. Reversible
C. Isobaric
D. Isothermal

Answer: B. Reversible

114. Which of the following is true for any process?

A. AS (Surrounding) + AS (system) > 0

B. AS (Surrounding) + AS (system) < 0
C. AS (Surrounding) + AS (system) < 0
D. AS (Surrounding) + AS (system) > 0

Answer: D. AS (Surrounding) + AS (system) > 0

115. The ideal reversible Carnot cycle involves four b processes. What type of processes are they?

A. All isothermal
B. All adiabatic
C. All isentropic
D. Two isothermal and two isentropic

Answer: D. Two isothermal and two isentropic

116. What is the temperature difference of the cycle if the entropy difference is AS, and the work done is W?

A. W minus delta S
B. W over delta S
C. delta S over W
D. delta S minus W

Answer: B. W over delta S

117. Which of the following is not an advantage of a superheated, closed Rankine cycle over an open Rankine cycle?

A. Lower equipment cost

B. Increased efficiency
C. Increased turbine life
D. Increased boiler life

Answer: D. Increased boiler life

18. Which of the following statements regarding Rankine cycle is not true?

A. Use of a condensable vapor in the cycle increases the efficiency of the cycle
B. The temperatures at which energy is transferred to and from the working liquid are less separated than in a Carnot
cycle
C. Superheating increases the efficiency of a Rankine cycle
D. In practical terms, the susceptibility of the engine materials to corrosion is not a key limitation on the operating
efficiency

Answer: D. In practical terms, the susceptibility of the engine materials to corrosion is not a key limitation on the
operating efficiency

119. Which one of the following is standard teem and pressure (STP)

A. O Kelvin and 1 atmosphere pressure

B. 0 degrees Fahrenheit and zero pressure
C. 32 Fahrenheit and zero pressure
D. 0 degrees Celsius and 1 atmosphere pressure

Answer: D. 0 degrees Celsius and 1 atmosphere pressure

120. A substance is oxidized when blank occurs?

A. It turns red
B. It loses electrons
C. It gives off heat
D. It absorbs energy

Answer: B. It loses electrons

121. Which of the following is not a unit of pressure?

A. Partial pressure
B. kg over m minus s
C. bars
D. kg over m squared

Answer: B. kg over m minus s

122. Which of the following is the definition of Joule?

A. Newton meter
B. kg m/s2
C. unit of power
D. rate of change of energy

Answer: A. Newton meter

123. Increasing the pressure has what effect of the boiling point of water?

A. No change
B. Temperature will be lowered
C. Temperature will be raised
D. Temperature will increase 2 °F for every psi

Answer: C. Temperature will be raised

124. Hydronic heat is blank.

A. steam heat
B. hot water heat
C. radiant heat
D. heat of evaporation

Answer: B. hot water heat

125. Which of the following most closely defines sensible heat?

A. an established relationship comparing any substance to the heat content of water

B. heat quantity that can be felt or measured by a thermometer
C. heat quantity above the point of saturation
D. measure of heat intensity

Answer: B. heat quantity that can be felt or measured by a thermometer

126. The term enthalpy blank.

A. is only used for the properties of refrigerant

B. is considered by Gibb's Rule.
C. will measure, by its change, the quantity of h added when refrigerant is vaporized at constant pressure.
D. defines the gas equation.

Answer: C. will measure, by its change, the quantity of h added when refrigerant is vaporized at constant pressure.

127. The quantity of heat required to change the state, a solid or liquid, of a body without rise of temperature called

A. specific heat B. latent heat

C. sensible heat D. required heat

Answer: B

128. In the centigrade scale the coefficient of expansion per degree is blank

A. 1/260
B. 1/304
C. 1/273
D. 1/360

Answer: C. 1/273

129. What are the two most common gases employ Stirling and Ericsson cycles?

A. Air and helium

B. Hydrogen and helium
C. Oxygen and helium
D. Nitrogen and helium

Answer: B. Hydrogen and helium

130. In Ericsson cycle, the regeneration process occurs during blank, process.

A. constant volume
B. constant temperature
C. constant pressure
D. none of these

Answer: C. constant pressure

131. It used as working fluid in high-temperature applications of vapor cycles.

A. Helium
B. Deuterium
C. Mercury
D. water

Answer: C. Mercury

132. Stirling cycle uses a blank as working fluids

A. incompressible gas
B. incompressible fluids
C. compressible refrigerant
D. compressible fluids

Answer: D. compressible fluids

133. Equation of state for a single component can b of the following except blank

A. the ideal gas law

B. any relationship interrelating 3 or more functions
C. relationship mathematically interrelating thermodynamic properties of the material
d. a mathematical expression defining a path between states

Answer: d. a mathematical expression defining a path between states

134. The state of a thermodynamic system is a defined by its blank

A. absolute temperature
B. process
C. properties
D. temperature and pressure

Answer: C. properties

135. In any non-quasi-static thermodynamic process overall entropy of an isolated system will blank.

A. increase and then decrease

B. decrease and then increase
C. increase only
D. decrease only

Answer: C. increase only

136. Entropy is the measure of blank

A. the internal energy of a gas

B. the heat capacity of a substance
C. randomness or disorder
D. the change of enthalpy of a system

Answer: C. randomness or disorder

137. Which of the following statements about entropy is false?

A. Entropy of a mixture is greater than that of its components under the same condition
B. An irreversible process increases entropy of universe the
C. Net entropy change in any closed cycle is zero
D. Entropy of a crystal at 0 °F is zero

Answer: D. Entropy of a crystal at 0 degrees F is zero

138. Work or energy can be a function of all of the following except blank

A. force and distance

B. power and time
C. force and time
D. temperature and entropy
Answer: C. force and time

139. Energy changes are represented by all except which one of the following

A. mCpdt
B. - VdP
C. Tds-PdV
D. dQ/T

Answer: dQ/T

140. A rigid container is heated by the sun. There shaft work associated with the container. From the Law of
thermodynamics, you determine the work to be blank

A. equal to the heat transfer

b. equal to the change in internal energy
C. equal to the volume times the change in pre
D. equal to zero

Answer: D. equal to zero

141. In flow process, neglecting KE and PE chan JvdP represents which item below?

A. Heat transfer
B. Shaft work
C. Enthalpy change
D. Closed system work

Answer: B. Shaft work

142. Power may be expressed in units of blank

A. ft-lb
B. kW-hr
C. Btu
D. Btu/hr

Answer: D. Btu per hour

143. In Stirling process the heat is added during blank

A. isobaric process
B. isentropic process
C. isothermal process
D. heat process

Answer: C. isothermal process

144. Increasing the pressure has what effect of the boiling point of water?

A. No change
B. Temperature will be lowered
C. Temperature will be raised
D. Temperature will increase 2 °F for every psi

Answer: C. Temperature will be raised

145. Heat absorbed by water when it changes from liquid to steam at the boiling point is called blank

A. sensible heat
B. latent heat
C. specific heat
D. superheat

Answer: B

146. Steam at 100 psi and 400 °F is blank

A. saturated
B. wet
C. superheated
D. none of the above

Answer: C. superheated