Mid-Term Examination

THERMODYNAMICS 1
October 11, 2019

1. The barometer reads 29.0 inches mercury. What is the absolute pressure if a vacuum gage reads
9.5 psi in kPa? (5 pts.)

2. A fluid with a vapor pressure of 0.2 Pa and a specific gravity of 12 is used in a barometer. If fluids
column height is 1m, what is the atmospheric pressure? (5 pts.)

3. A column of water 200 cm high will give a pressure equivalent to? (5 pts.)

4. What is the equivalent ˚R of 400 ˚K? (5 pts.)

5. If the temperature inside the furnace is 700˚K, what is the corresponding reading in ˚F? (5 pts.)

6. The specific gravity of mercury relative to water is 13. 55. What is the specific weight of
mercury? The specific weight of water is 62.4 lb per cubic foot. (10 pts.)

7. An iron block weighs 5 N and has a volume of 200 cm³. What is the density of the block? (5 pts.)

8. A storage tank contains oil with specific gravity of 0.88 and depth of 20m. What is the
hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of the tank in kg/cm²? (10 pts.)

9. A cylindrical tank 2 m diameter, 3 m high is full of oil. If the specific gravity of oil is 0.9, what is
the mass of oil in the tank? (10 pts.)

10. 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (w = 790 kg/m³). What is the specific volume of
the resulting mixtures, assuming the fluids mixed completely? (10 pts.)

11. A cylindrical tank is filled with water at the rate of 5,000 gal/min. The height of water in the tank
after 15 minutes is 20.42 ft. What is the diameter of the tank? (10 pts.)

12. A certain fluid is flowing in a 0.5 m x 0.3 m channel at the rate of 3 m/sec and has a specific
volume of 0.0012 m³/kg. Determine the mass of water flowing in kg/sec. (10 pts.)

13. Water is flowing through a 1 foot diameter pipe at the rate of 10 ft/sec. What is the volume flow
of water flowing? (5 pts.)

14. A U-tube manometer is connected to a closed tank as shown in Figure 5. The air pressure in the
tank is 120 Pa and the liquid in the tank is oil (γ = 12000 N/m3 ). The pressure at point A is 20
kPa. Determine: (a) the depth of oil, z, and (b) the differential reading, h, on the manometer. (15
pts.)