Week 4

TOTAL POINTS 15

1.Question 1
What causes heat transfer?

1 point

A difference in temperature

A difference in specific volume

A difference in mass flow

Work transfer

2.Question 2
What is dm_cv / dt for a steady state system?

1 point

0.5

3.Question 3
Which of the following devices produces work as output?

1 point
Diffuser

Nozzle

All of the other choices.

Turbine

4.Question 4
What is the change in specific enthalpy if water vapor at 80 bar and a quality of 0 is expanded to a
saturated vapor at 100 bar?

1 point

-1409 kJ/kg

2726 kJ/kg

1317 kJ/kg

1409 kJ/kg

5.Question 5
Water flows through a 1000 cm^2 pipe at 200 kg/s. Find the velocity, if the water is at 20 bar and 45
℃.

1 point

5.5 m/s

0.0002 m/s

2.0 m/s
0.55 m/s

6.Question 6
Consider a pump with a mass flow rate of water of 5 kg/s. The water enters at 99 °C and 9999 kPa
and leaves at 150 °C and 15000 kPa. What is the specific work of the pump? Assume the process is
adiabatic.

1 point

-219 kJ/kg

1095 kJ/kg

219 kJ/kg

-1095 kJ/kg

7.Question 7
A rigid container holds an ideal gas with c_v = 0.75 kJ/(kgK). The container is cooled from 110 ℃ to
20 ℃. Find the specific heat transfer (kJ/kg) for the process.

1 point

96 kJ/kg

-67.5 kJ/kg

-96 kJ/kg

67.5 kJ/kg

8.Question 8
Water is compressed in a piston/cylinder system with specific heat transfer into the system of 150
kJ/kg. Determine the specific work that occurs if the water is initially a superheated vapor at 2000
kPa and 300°C and the final state is 2500 kPa and 350°C.

1 point

208 kJ/kg

71 kJ/kg

53 kJ/kg

185 kJ/kg

9.Question 9
Consider a problem where you need to find the change in enthalpy. The initial state and the final
state have the same pressure, but the pressure changes throughout the process. Which of the
following list of variables is needed to solve the problem?

1 point

c_p, T_2, T_1

c_v, T_2, T_1

T_2, T_1

c_p, c_v, T_2, T_1

10.Question 10
Consider a dropping a ball from a height of 5 m into a pool of warm water. Which of the following is
true?

1 point
There is significant work transfer.

The potential energy can be ignored.

Energy is not conserved.

There is a change in internal energy in the process.

11.Question 11
In this course, we commonly assume which of the following for flow devices like pumps, heat
exchanges, turbines and compressors?

1 point

Steady State

Steady State, Steady Flow, Constant Temperature

Steady Flow

Steady State and Steady Flow

12.Question 12
Which of the following is true about a nozzle?

1 point

There is a change in pressure from the inlet to the outlet of the nozzle.

The velocity of the fluid at the entrance is larger than the velocity of the fluid at the exit of a nozzle.

The area at the exit is greater than the area at the entrance of a nozzle.
Nozzles are not adiabatic.

13.Question 13
Consider a car at a chilly temperature of 44 °F. If the pressure is 101 kPa, what is the density of air
in the car? How would increasing the temperature to 77°F change the density of air in the car?

1 point

1124 g/m^3, decrease by 98 g/m^3

1124 g/m^3, increase by 98 g/m^3

1257 g/m^3, increase by 77 g/m^3

1257 g/m^3, decrease by 77 g/m^3

14.Question 14
Air is flowing in a 0.2 meter diameter pipe at a uniform velocity of 0.5 m/s. The temperature is 49 °C
and pressure is 99 kPa. Determine the mass flow rate in kg/s.

1 point

0.021 kg/s

0.017 kg/s

0.066 kg/s

0.007 kg/s

15.Question 15
A piston/cylinder system has an initial volume of 0.1 m^3 and contains nitrogen initially at 150 kPa,
25 °C. The piston compresses the nitrogen until the pressure reaches 1 MPa and the temperature is
150°C. During the compression process, heat is transferred from the nitrogen, and the work done on
the nitrogen is 20 kJ. Determine the heat transfer of the process. The gas constant R for nitrogen is
0.2968 kJ/(kgK) and the specific heat c_v is 0.745 kJ/(kgK).

1 point

-4.2 kJ

-8.4 kJ

8.4 kJ

-3.7 kJ