TUTORIAL PROBLEMS (1)

1. An astronaut weighs 850N on the surface of the earth where g is 9.806 m/sec 2. What is
the mass of the astronaut? What is his mass on the surface of the moon where g is 1/6 of
the earth’s gravity?

2. What force in Newton will accelerate a mass of 50kg at the rate of 12 m/sec2?

3. The mass of a kite is 0.102kg. What is the force due to gravity acting on the kite?

4. The weight of 1 Liter of gasoline is 7.0 N. Determine its density.

5. The weight of 1 liter of gasoline is 7.0N. Determine its relative density.

6. An open water tank is filled to a depth of 1.5m. What is the absolute pressure of the fluid
at the bottom of the tank?

7. Define a new scale, say °N, in which the boiling and freezing points of water are 1000°N
and 100°N, respectively. Correlate this scale with the Celsius scales.

8. A pump discharges 20kg/min of diesel fuel (S.G = 0.8) to a vertical cylindrical tank 3
meters high and 1 meter in diameter. Calculate the time (hrs) to fill the said fuel tank.

9. A nuclear submarine is 200m below the surface of the sea. What is the pressure (bars)
exerted on the hull (outer casing by the water at this depth?

10. An open tank 1 meter in diameter and 1.5m in height is filled with diesel oil (S.G = 0.85).
Assuming 75% of its capacity is occupied by the diesel, calculate the pressure of the fluid
at the bottom of the tank.
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1. A dam holds 200,000 m3 of water at a height of 150 m above a valley floor. If the water is used to
drive a hydraulic turbine generator situated on the valley floor, what is maximum energy that can
be generated? If the water is transported to the turbine through a frictionless pipe, what is the
maximum velocity of the jet of water leaving the pipe?
2. An airplane has a mass of 196,000 kg and carries 400 passengers having an average mass of 60
kg each. What is the total energy of the loaded airplane when traveling at 820 km/hr at a height of
9,500 m above the sea level?
3. A motor driven pump transfer 5000 liters of oil (SG = 0.8) per hour through an elevation of 16
meters. If the delivery velocity is 10 m/sec, what is the input power of the pump?
4. The compressor in a commercial refrigerator requires a power input of 1,200 W when rotating at
1,420 rpm. What is the driving torque exerted on the compressor shaft?
5. In an industrial process, a heater transfers 12 kW of power into a tank containing 250 liters of a
liquid which has a specific heat capacity of 2.45 kJ/kgK and a density of 784 kg/m 3. Determine
the temperature increase after 5 minutes assuming there is no heat loss from the tank.
6. A 50 kw electric furnace measures 1.2m x 1.0m x 0.8m. When the temperature inside the furnace
is 1250oC, a block of aluminum with a mass of 300kg and a temperature of 16.5 oC is placed
inside. Assuming the heat loss from the furnace walls is 500 w/m 2, how long will it take to heat
the block to the furnace temperature? (specific heat of aluminum is 0.9 kJ/kg. K)
7. A car having a total mass of 1500 kg and traveling at 100 kph is made to stop by applying brakes.
All of the kinetic energy of the car is converted into internal energy of the brakes. Assuming each
of the car’s four wheels has a steel disc brake with a mass of 10kg, what is the temperature
change of the brakes? Specific heat of steel = 0.45 KJ/ kg-K.
8. A power station uses oil-fired boilers which are supplied with fuel from four cylindrical oil
storage tanks, each 15m in diameter and 10m high. The calorific value of the oil is 38000 KJ/kg
and its relative density is 0.80. The output from the power station is 60MW. Assuming that only
15% of the heat input is converted into electrical energy output, how long will the boilers run on
the oil in the tanks?
9. An elevator and its contents have a mass of 1500kg. What is the electrical power input to the
lifting motor if the elevator is raised through a height of 36 meters in 30 seconds? Assume that
only 85% of the electrical power input to the motor is available to lift the elevator.
10. A 600 kg hammer of a pile driver is lifted 2 meters above a piling head. If the hammer is
released, what will be its velocity at the instant it strikes the piling?
11. A girl weighing 470N holds suspended on the end of a rope 5 meters long. What will be her gain
in potential energy when a friend swings her to one side so that the rope makes an angle of 35°
with the vertical?
12. A tank contains 25 liters of lubricating oil having a relative density of 0.9 and a temperature of
10°C. The oil is heated for 15 minutes by a 2.16 kw electric heater. Determine the final
temperature of the oil assuming heat loss through the tank as 160w. (specific heat of oil is 2
KJ/kg-K)
13. There are 400 kg/min of water being handled by pump. The lift is from a 20-m deep well and the
delivery velocity is 15 m/sec. Calculate the required power of the pumping unit in Kw.
14. A motor driven pump transfers 5,000 liters of oil per hour through an elevation of 16 m. If the
specific gravity of the oil is 0.8, what is the input power to the pump?
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1. In an industrial process, 300 KJ of work is needed to compress 4 kg of oxygen. During

compression 270 KJ of heat is rejected to the surrounding air. Determine the change in specific
internal energy of the oxygen. Will the internal energy increase or decrease?

2. A rotary compressor draws 6,000 kg/hr of atmospheric air and delivers it at a higher pressure.
The specific enthalpy of air at inlet is 300 KJ/kg and that at the exit is 509 KJ/kg. The heat loss
from the compressor casing is 5,000 W. Neglecting the changes in kinetic and potential energy;
determine the power required to drive the compressor.

3. 10,000 kg/hr of steam with an enthalpy of 2,778 KJ/kg enters a turbine. If the exhaust steam
leaves the turbine with an enthalpy of 2,168 KJ.kg, determine the turbine power output.

4. Steam with an enthalpy of 2,168 KJ/kg enters a condenser at a rate of 10,000 kg/hr. If the
condensate leaves the condenser with an enthalpy of 251 KJ/kg, determine the heat rejection rate.

5. In a turbine high temperature gas with a specific enthalpy of 1,860 KJ/kg flows continuously into
the turbine, turns the rotor and leaves the turbine with a specific enthalpy of 530 KJ/kg. The heat
loss through the turbine casing is 140 KJ/kg. Neglecting changes in kinetic and potential energy
of the gases, find the turbine work output per kilogram of gas flow.

6. In a rotating compressor atmospheric air with a specific enthalpy of 80 KJ/kg continuously enters
the compressor and is compressed to a high pressure. The air leaves the compressor with a
specific enthalpy of 426 KJ/kg. During this process 32 KJ/kg of heat is lost to the surroundings.
Find the required work input to the compressor per kg of air compressed.