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Diagnostic Examination for BSAeroE
Questionnaire for Aeronautical Engineering Students

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Directions: In the Answer Sheet provided, shade the box of the letter that corresponds to your
answers. Pencil No. 2 should be used in marking your answers. Careless marking of your
answer sheet may lower the scores you earn on this test.
You will have one (1) hour for this test. Work as rapidly and as accurately as you can. If
you are not sure of an answer, mark the choice which is your best guess. Only one answer
should be marked for each problem. Should a mistake be made, merely erase or cross out the
wrong box and mark the correct one.

POWERPLANT – SET A

1.) What is the purpose of having piston ring 14.) The actual amount of power produced by
gaps? an engine.
a. So that oil can freely enter the system. a. Actual horsepower
b. So that the piston rings will have b. Friction horsepower
allowance in the event of thermal c. Break horsepower
expansion. d. Indicated horsepower
c. So that the temperature from the piston
can be easily transferred to the cylinder 15.) Defined as the distance traveled by a
walls. piston inside the cylinder assembly.
d. For easier overhaul procedures. a. Stroke
b. Bore
2.) How do cooling fins help in dissipating c. Event
heat from the cylinder assembly? d. Cycle
a. It increases the surface area of the
cylinder for convection. 16.) What type of energy is produced by
b. They provide an outlet for hot air. burning the fuel and air mixture?
c. They make the cylinder assembly a. Thermal
become lighter. b. Electrical
d. Their shape helps cool air flow smoothly c. Chemical
against the outer walls of the cylinder. d. Mechanical

3.) If a four-stroke, five-event engine uses a 17.) The deep body temperature of a healthy
carburetor, during what stroke is fuel person is 37 ℃. What is it in Kelvins?
introduced into the combustion a. 310 K
a. chamber?
Intake b. 325 K
b. Compression c. 527 K
c. Power d. 556 K
d. Exhaust
18.) Energy can neither be created nor
4.) A crankshaft completes one rotation in destroyed is stated by:
order to: a. The zeroth law of thermodynamics
a. Complete one stroke b. The first law of thermodynamics
b. Complete three strokes c. The second law of thermodynamics
c. Complete one cycle d. The third law of thermodynamics
d. Complete two strokes
19.) Which of the following statements
5.) At what position does the piston start at describe the Brayton engine cycle?
during the intake stroke? a. A repeating cycle in which the events
a. Top dead center happen one after another.
b. Bottom down center b. A linear cycle in which the events
happen
c. Bottom dead center simultaneously.
d. Top down center c. A linear cycle in which the events
happen one at a time.
6.) The engine cycle that does not require an d. A repeating cycle in which the events
outside source of ignition. happen two at a time.
a. Otto Cycle
b. Diesel Cycle 20.) The isentropic process is:
c. Brayton Cycle a. A process that is both adiabatic and non-
d. Carnot Cycle reversible.
b. A process that is both adiabatic and
7.) This is also known as a "mechanical reversible.
plunger". c. A process that in which internal energy
a. Crankshaft remains constant.
b. Cylinder assembly d. The combination of an isobaric,
c. Piston isochoric and isothermal process.
d. Connecting rod
21.) The measure of disorder in a system is
8.) dictates that pressure called:
equates to the force applied by a fluid is a. Entropy
proportional to the surface area. b. Enthalpy
a. Pascal's Law c. Internal energy
b. Euler's Equation d. Work non-flow
c. Boyle's Law
d. Bernoulli's Equation

9.) The -type engine has two 22.) What is it preferred two sets of valve
banks of cylinders directly opposite each springs?
other with a crankshaft in the middle. a. To maximize the tension between the two
a. Radial valve spring retainers.
b. In-line b. As a fail-safe in case one of the springs
c. V-type fail.
d. Opposed c. The two springs coiled together help in
dissipating heat from the valves.
10.) A crankshaft is checked for d. So that the assembly would become more
by placing it on knife durable.
edges and observing any tendency to
rotate. 23.) What kind of crankshaft should you use
a. Dynamic balance for a v-type engine with 12-cylinder
b. Static balance assemblies?
c. Centrifugal balance a. Four throw
d. Damage and cracks b. Six throw
c. Eight throw
11.) The is the link which d. Single throw
transmits forces between the piston and
the crankshaft. 24.) This part of the piston helps with
a. Camshaft alignment when inside the cylinder
b. Compression stroke assembly during engine operation.
c. Connecting rod a. Piston pin boss
d. Power stroke b. Piston skirt
c. Piston ring land
12.) The -type connecting rod d. Piston head
is used on horizontally opposed engines.
a. Master-and-articulated 25.) The main disadvantage of an in-line
b. Fork and blade engine is:
c. Plain a. Low power-weight ratio
d. Normal b. Difficult to overhaul
c. High fuel consumption
13.) Why is it important for bearings to be d. Small engine size
made of non-ferrous materials?
a. To withstand high temperatures during 26.) This component introduces fuel to the
engine operation. mixture by spraying it inside the
b. To minimize friction between two combustion chamber.
moving parts. a. Induction system
c. Because these materials are less likely to b. Fuel injectors
 develop corrosion. c. Carburetor
d. Because these materials are cheaper. d. Intake valve

29.) The thermodynamic law that states

that the entropy approaches a constant
value as the constant the temperature
27.) This thermodynamic law states that when approaches absolute zero.
a body comes in contact with another
body that is at a different temperature, a. The zeroth law of thermodynamics
heat is transferred from the hotter body to b. The first law of thermodynamics
the colder body until both reach thermal c. The second law of thermodynamics
equilibrium. d. The third law of thermodynamics
a. The zeroth law of thermodynamics
b. The first law of thermodynamics 30.) This shows the relationship of the
c. The second law of thermodynamics pressure, volume, temperature and mass
d. The third law of thermodynamics of a gas in reference to its universal gas
constant.
28.) Which of the following properties are a. Boyle's Law
considered as extensive properties? b. Ideal Gas Law
a. Pressure c. Combined Gas Law
b. Density d. Charles' Law
c. Temperature
d. Force