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1. The document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to thermodynamics concepts. Questions cover topics like the Ericsson cycle, ideal gases, thermodynamic cycles, phase changes, heat and work calculations. 2. Key concepts assessed include efficiency, ideal gases, thermodynamic processes, heat transfer, phase changes of water, internal energy, temperature-volume relationships, and refrigeration cycles. 3. The questions require understanding of core thermodynamics principles like the first and second laws of thermodynamics, heat and work, state functions, and properties of pure substances and mixtures.

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CET Assignment

1. The document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to thermodynamics concepts. Questions cover topics like the Ericsson cycle, ideal gases, thermodynamic cycles, phase changes, heat and work calculations. 2. Key concepts assessed include efficiency, ideal gases, thermodynamic processes, heat transfer, phase changes of water, internal energy, temperature-volume relationships, and refrigeration cycles. 3. The questions require understanding of core thermodynamics principles like the first and second laws of thermodynamics, heat and work, state functions, and properties of pure substances and mixtures.

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Thermodynamics Assignment

1. The efficiency of the Ericsson cycle is ........ Carnot cycle.


2. An ideal monatomic gas is taken round the cycle ABCDA as shown below in the P-V
diagram. The work done during the cycle is

(A) PV
(B) 2PV
(C) PV/2
(D) 0

3. Pick out the wrong statement.


(A) An ideal liquid or solid solution is defined as one in which each component obeys
Raoult's law
(B) If Raoult's law is applied to one component of a binary mixture; Henry's law or
Raoult's law is applied to the other component also
(C) Henry's law is rigorously correct in the limit of infinite dilution
(D) None of these

4. 1 m3 of an ideal gas at 500 K and 1000 kPa expands reversibly to 5 times its initial
volume in an insulated container. If the specific heat capacity (at constant pressure)
of the gas is 21 J/mole.K, the final temperature will be

5. At a given temperature, the volume of a gas dissolved in a solvent __________ with


increase in pressure.
(A) Increases
(B) Decreases
(C) Remains unchanged
(D) May increase or decrease; depends on the gas

6. A thermodynamic system is taken from state A to B along ACB and is brought back
to A along BDA as shown below in the P-V diagram. The net work done during the
complete cycle is given by the area covered by
(A) P1ACBP2P1
(B) ACBB’A’A
(C) ACBDA
(D) ADBB’A’A

7. Heat is added at constant pressure in an ideal __________ cycle.


(A) Stirling
(B) Brayton
(C) Rankine
(D) Both (b) and (c)
8. The Maxwell relation derived from the differential expression for the Helmholtz free
energy (dA) is
(A) (∂T/∂V)S = - (∂P/∂S)V
(B) (∂S/∂P)T = - (∂V/∂T)P
(C) (∂V/∂S)P = (∂T/∂P)S
(D) (∂S/∂V)T = (∂P/∂T)V

9. Partial molar free energy of an element A in solution is same as its


(A) Chemical potential
(B) Activity
(C) Fugacity
(D) Activity coefficient

10. Which of the following has the minimum value of COP for a given refrigeration effect?
(A) Reverse Carnot cycle
(B) Ordinary vapor-compression cycle
(C) Vapor-compression process with a reversible expansion engine
(D) Air refrigeration cycle

11. Entropy of an ideal gas depends upon its


(A) Pressure
(B) Temperature
(C) Both A and B
(D) Neither A nor B

12. The expression, , gives the free energy change

(A) with pressure changes at constant temperature.

(B) under reversible isothermal volume change.

(C) during heating of an ideal gas.

(D) during cooling of an ideal gas.

13. The work output of a reversible heat engine operating between 227 deg C and 37 deg
C is used to drive a reversible heat pump between T deg C and 37 deg C. The heat
engine and the heat pump transfer heat to the reservoir at 37 deg C. The magnitudes of
which are Q2 and Q3, respectively. Given that (Q2+Q3)/Q1=2.976, where Q1 is the heat
transfer to the heat engine from the reservoir at 227 deg C, calculate the value of T.
14. Compressibility factor for all gases is almost same for all gases at
(A) Critical pressure and critical temperature
(B) Reduced pressure and reduced temperature
(C) Pressure and temperature
(D) None of these

15. Pick out the wrong statement.


(A) Activity coefficient is dimensionless
(B) In case of an ideal gas, fugacity is equal to pressure
(C) In a mixture of ideal gases, the fugacity of a component is equal to the partial
pressure of the component
(D) The fugacity coefficient is zero for an ideal gas.

16. During Joule Thomson expansion of gases


(A) Entropy remains constant.
(B) Enthalpy remains constant
(C) Temperature remains constant
(D) None of these

17. Degrees of freedom at triple point will be


(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 2
(D) 3

18. The theoretical minimum work required to separate one mole of a liquid mixture at 1 atm,
containing 50 mole % each of n- heptane and n- octane into pure compounds each at 1 atm is
(A) -2 RT ln 0.5
(B) -RT ln 0.5
(C) 0.5 RT
(D) 2 RT

19. The specific volumes of liquid water and water vapourat 100 deg C and 101.325 kPa are
0.001 and 1.673 m^3/kg respectively. Heat in the amount of 22569kJ is added to 10 kg of
water to vaporize it completely at the constant temperature of 100 deg C and the constant
pressure of 101.325 kPa. The change in the internal energy for this process is
(A) 22569 kJ
(B) 20875 kJ
(C) 22399.6 kJ
(D) 24263 kJ

20. Keeping the pressure constant, to double the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas at
27°C, the temperature should be raised to __________ °C.
(A) 327
(B) 380
(C) 333
(D) 300

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