Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering CHE 243: Engineering Thermodynamics Winter term of 2008 Assignment # 1 (Chapter 2) Due 3:00 PM of January 17, 2008 1 A bucket of concrete of total mass 200 kg is raised by a crane with an acceleration of 2 mvs’ relative to the ground at a location where the local gravitational acceleration is 9.5 m/s”. Find the required force and the amount of the potential energy if the height at the end is 100m. AA tank has two rooms separated by a membrane. Room A has 1 kg of air dnd a volume of 0.5 m’; room B has 0.75 m° of air with density 0.8 kg/m’, The ‘membrane is broken and the air comes to a uniform state occupying the whole volume. Find the final density and the specifie volume of the air. A piston-cylinder device with a cross-sectional area of 0.01 m? has a piston mass of 100 kg resting on the stops. With an outside atmospheric pressure of 100 kPa, ‘what should the water pressure be to lift the piston? g= 9.81 m/s” Liquid water with density p is filled on top of a thin piston in a cylinder with cross-sectional area A and total height H, as shown in following Figure. Air is let in under the piston so it pushes the piston up, spilling the water over the edge. Deduce the formula for the air pressure-as a function of the piston elevation from the bottom,5. A gage is reading the pressure in an automobile tire of 190 kPa. What is the absolute pressure of the air in the tire in kPa? What will be the height of mercury column attached to this tire? g= 9.81 m/s? and pu,= 13600 kg/m? 6. Determine the mass of the petcock of a pressure cooker whose operation pressure is 105 kPa (gage pressure) and has an opening cross-sectional area of 3. mm?, Assume an atmospheric pressure of 100 kPa and g= 9.81 m/s”.