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2) What is the temperature at which water freezes using the Kelvin scale?
7) Given the steam pressure of 900 ft/lb 2, temperature of 300F, specific volume of 5.8 ft 3/lb. If the
specific enthalpy is 9,500 ft-lb/lb, what is the internal energy per lb of the system?
8) The barometer reads 29.0 inches (737 mm) of mercury. What is the absolute pressure if a vacuum
gauge reads 9.5 psi (66 kPa) in SI?
9) A fluid with a vapor pressure of 0.2 Pa and a specific gravity of 12 is used in a barometer. If the
fluids column height is 1m, what is the atmospheric pressure?
10) What is the atmospheric pressure on a planet if the pressure is 100 kPa and the gauge pressure is
10 kPa?
11) A column of water 200 cm high will give a pressure equivalent to:
13) If the temperature inside the furnace is 700K, what is the corresponding reading in F?
14) If the F scale is twice the C scale, what will be the corresponding reading in each scale?
15) Water enters the condenser at 25C and leaves at 40C, What is the temperature difference in F?
16) Water enters the heater with 28C and leaves at 75C. What is the temperature change in F?
17) 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.
18) An iron block weighs 5N and has a volume of 200cm3. What is the density of the block?
19) The suction pressure of a pump reads 540 mm Hg vacuum. What is the absolute pressure in kPa?
20) A boiler installed where the atmospheric pressure is 755mm Hg has a pressure 12kg/cm 2. What is
the absolute pressure in Mpa?
21) A storage tank contains oil with specific gravity of 0.88 and a depth of 20m. What is the
hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of the tank in kg/cm2?
22) A batch of concrete consisted of 200 lbs fine aggregate, 350 lbs coarse aggregate, 94 lbs cement,
and 9 gallons of water. The specific gravity of the sand and gravel may be taken as 2.65 and that of
the cement as 3.10. What was the weight of concrete in place lb/ft3.
23) A batch of concrete consisted of 200 lbs fine aggregate, 350 lbs coarse aggregate, 94 lbs cement,
and 9 gallons of water. The specific gravity of the sand and gravel may be taken as 2.65 and that of
the cement as 3.10. How much by weight of cement is required to produce one cubic yard?
24) A cylindrical tank 2m diameter, 3m high is full of oil. If the specific gravity of oil is 0.9, what is the
mass of oil in the tank?
25) 100g of water are mixed with 150g of alcohol (w=790 kg/m 3). What is the specific volume of the
resulting mixtures, assuming the fluids mixed completely?
26) 100g of water are mixed with 150g of alcohol (w=790 kg/m 3). What is the specific gravity of the
resulting mixtures, assuming the fluids mixed completely?
27) A spherical tank is full of water that has a total mass of 10,000 kg. If the outside diameter of the
tank is 2722 mm, how thick is the wall of the tank?
28) A cylindrical tank is filled with water at the rate of 5,000 gal/min. The height of the water in tank
after 15 minutes is 20.42 ft. What is the diameter of the tank?
29) Water is flowing through a 1 foot diameter pipe at the rate of 10 ft/sec. What is the volume flow
of water flowing?
30) A certain fluid is flowing in a 0.5mx0.3m channel at the art of 3m/sec and has a specific volume of
0.0012 m3/kg. Determine the mass of water flowing in kg/sec.
32) What is the potential energy of a 500 kg body if it is dropped to a height of 100m?
33) The flow energy of 124 li/min of a fluid passing a boundary to a system is 2 kJ/sec. What is the
pressure at this point?
34) Steam at 1000 lb/ft2 pressure and 300R has a specific volume of 6.5 ft 3/lb and a specific enthalpy
of 9800 ft-lb/lb. Find the internal energy per pound mass of steam.
43) How much heat, kJ must be transferred to 20kg of air to increase the temperature from 20C to
280C if the pressure is maintained constant.
44) If air is at pressure, p, of 3200 lb/ft 2, and at a temperature, T, of 800R, what is the specific volume,
v?
45) The mass of air in the room 3mx5mx20m is known to be 350kg. Find its density.
46) A bicycle has a volume of 600cm3. It is inflated with carbon dioxide to pressure of 80psi at 20C.
How many grams of carbon dioxide are contained in the tire?
53) If 8lbs of a substance receives 240 Btu of heat at constant volume and undergo a temp change of
150F. What is the average specific heat of the substance during the process?
57) What is the specific volume of an air at 30C and 150 kPa?
59) How much work is done when 20ft 3 of an air initially at a pressure of 15 psia and a temp of 40F
experience an increase of pressure to 80psi while the volume remains constant.
60) A perfect gas has a value of R = 58.8 ft-lb/lb R and k = 1.26. If 20 Btu are added to 5 lbs of this gas
at constant volume when initial temperature is 90F, find the final temperature.
61) While the pressure remains constant and 689.5 kPa, the volume of air changes from 0.567 m 3 to
0.283 m3. What is the work done?
62) A group of 50 persons attend a secret meeting in a room which is 12 m wide by 10 m long and a
ceiling height of 3m. The room is completely sealed off and insulated. Each person gives off 150 Kcal
per hour of heat and occupies a volume of 0.2m 3. The room has an initial pressure of 101.325 kPa and
temp of 16C. Calculate the room temp after 10 mins.
1. Calculate in kg/m3 the density of 3.5L solution weighing 7kg.
2. Calculate the absolute pressure for the system, given a gauge pressure of 1.5 MPa and a barometric
pressure (atmospheric pressure) 104 kPa.
3. A piston weighs 4.3 kgs and has a cross sectional area of 450 mm 2. Determine the pressure that is
exerted by this piston on the gas in the chamber. Assume gravitational acceleration ‘g’ to be 9.81
m/sec2.
4. The boiling temperature of liquid oxygen (O2) is -297.3 ̊ F. Convert this temperature to Celsius
degrees and Kelvin.
5. Air pressure is approximately 100,000 Pascals. What force is exerted on this book when it is sitting
flat on a desk? The area of the book’s cover is 0.035 m2.
6. A fisherman with a mass of 75kg falls asleep on his four-legged chair of mass 5 kg. If each leg of the
chair has a surface area of 2.5×10-4 m2 in contact with the ground, what is the average pressure
exerted by the fisherman and chair on the ground?
7. A rotary comedy with power of 300 watts and period 7 minutes rotates 6 rounds. Calculate the
amount of energy it uses.
8. A liquid that has a mass of 300 grams and fits in a container that is 30 by 10 by 6.0 centimeters
cubed. What is the density of the liquid?
9. Mass of object is 316 grams, placed in a container as shown in figure. What is the density of the
object? (40 mL)
10. The volume of an object is 8 cm3 and mass of an object is 84 gram. What is the density of the
object in g/mL?
11. If a 0.2 kg metal rod is heated 180°C with 2 Btu. Determine its specific heat.
12. A metal ball is heated 210°C with 2 200 J energy, if its specific heat measures 79.58 J/kg°C.
Determine the mass of the ball.
13. It takes 487.5 J to heat 25 grams of copper from 25 °C to 75 °C. What is the specific heat in
Joules/g°C?
14. “Room temperature” is generally defined in physics to be 25°C. (a) What is room temperature in
°F? (b) What is it in K?