FLUID MECHANICS TERMS

1. Which of the following would be identified with a control volume in thermodynamics?

ANS: Filling a tire with air at the service station

2. Which of the following does NOT transfer work to or from a system ?

ANS: D. A membrane that brusts

3. What law states that for all adiabetic processes between two specified states of a closed system,
the net work done is the same regardless of the nature of the closed system and the details of
the process?

ANS: B. First law of Thermodynamics

4. . What law of nature underpins the concept of a balanced chemical equation?

ANS: D. First law of thermodynamics

5. An adiabatic process is characterized by which of the following?

ANS: B. The heat transfer is zero

6. An open system of first law of Thermodynamics should be utilized for all the following EXCEPT
___.

ANS: B. A piston-cylinder device with no inlet/exhaust valves.

7. Which of the following in the thermodynamic is considered as the heat content of the system?

ANS: D. Enthalpy

8. Which of the following formula is CORRECT for temperature conversion?

ANS: Tf = 9/5 Tc -32

9. What is the transfer of heat due to motions of a fluid near the surface of an object?

ANS: C. Convection

10. What refers to the measure of the disorder present in given substance or system?

ANS: B. Entropy

11. A rigid container is heated by the sun. There is NO shaft work associated with the container.
From the first law of thermodynamics, what is the resulting work equal to?

ANS: B. Zero

12. The thermodynamic statement of the conservation of energy of a system is the

13. Which of the following engines is the most efficient?

ANS: D. Carnot engine

14. In Thermodynamics our attention is focused on which from of energy?

ANS: B. Internal Energy

15. When two bodies isolated from other environment, are in thermal equilibrium with a third body,
the two are in thermal equilibrium with each other. What do you call does statement?

ANS: A. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

16. The second law of thermodynamics can be stated as:

ANS: I – heat flows spontaneously from hot object to a cold one, but not the reverse;

II- natural processes tend to move toward a state of greater disorder or greater entropy.

17. What do you call a system in which there is a flow of matter through the boundary? This system
usually encloses the device that involves mass flow, such as compressor, turbine, or nozzle.

ANS: B. Open system

18. What system in which there is no exchange of matter with the surrounding or mass does not
cross its boundaries?

ANS: B. Closed system

19. The first law of thermodynamics is based on which of the following principles?

ANS: B. Conservation of energy

20. Impulse type turbine named after his creator.

ANS: A. Pelton

21. Reversed joule cycle is also known as

ANS: D. Bell-Coleman cycle

22. The simple mathematical statement of the relationship between elastic stress and strain: stress
is proportional to strain. What is this law?

ANS: B. Hooke’s law

23. .1 kwhr is how many kilojoules?

ANS: B. 3600

24. Dual combustion cycle is used in:

ANS: B. Diesel Engine

ANS: A. There is no work done

B. there is no change in enthalpy

C. There is no heat transfer

26. Which is not covered by Thermodynamics?

ANS: A. Utilization of energy

27. Pluto travels from perihelion to aphelion. What is the work done by gravity on Pluto?

ANS: B. negative

28. Carnot cycle is maximum efficiency in ______ engine.

ANS: C. reversible

29. In an ideal gas, both pressure and temperature increase to twice the original pressure and
temperature respectively. If the original volume is Vo, then the new volume is

ANS: B. Vo

30. A diabetic process is?

ANS: A. No heat transfer

31. Which of the following cycle is used in vapor cycle power plant?

ANS: B. Rankine cycle

32. In Air conditioning of aircrafts, using air as a refrigerant, the cycle used is:

ANS: C. Reverse Brayton Cycle

33. A process in which pressure is constant.

ANS: A. Isobaric

34. What is the maximum efficiency engine operating from a high temperature reservoir to a low
temperature reservoir?

ANS: A. Carnot

35. The change that the system undergoes from one equilibrium state to another is known as
_____

ANS: B. process

36. During a refrigeration cycle, heat is rejected in a:

ANS: B. condenser

37. . (U + PV) is a quantity called

38. What refers to a system in which there is a flow of mass across its boundaries?

ANS: A. Open system

39. A device used in thermal power plant to reduce air pollution?

ANS: B. Precipitator

40. Which of the following is Charle’s law?

ANS: D. V/T = k

41. Which of the following is the ideal gas law?

ANS: PV= mRT

42. The term “thermodynamics comes from the Greek words Theme and Dynamis which eans

ANS: A. Heat, power

43. Otto cycle is also known as

ANS: C. Constant volume cycle

44. enthalpy of an ideal gas is a function only of

ANS: D. temperature

45. The cycle generally used for gas turbines is

ANS: D. Brayton cycle

46. In flow process, neglecting KE and PE changes, -VdP represents which item

ANS: B. shaft work

47. Which of the following is the process that cannot be found in a Carnot engine cycle?

ANS: A. Isobaric expansion

48. The ratio of Cp and Cv is called:

ANS: B. Adiabatic index

49. . What is the area under the curve on a temperature-entropy diagram?

ANS: A. Heat

50. Oxygen is converted into ozone by

ANS: C. electric dischargeThe ideal, reversible Carnot cycle involve four basic processes. What
type of processes are they?
 ANS: C. electric discharge

51. The ideal, reversible Carnot cycle involve four basic processes. What type of processes are they?

ANS: D. two isothermal and two isentropic

52. Pulverized fuel is used for

ANS: Pulverized fuel is used for

53. An isentropic process:

ANS: A. Is adiabatic and reversible

54. In the case of a regenerative gas turbine engine, which of the following is false?

ANS: There is no heat rejected to the atmosphere in a regenerative gas turbine engine

55. If you place your hand underneath, blue not touching, a kettle of hot water, you mainly feel the
presence of heat from

ANS: A. Conduction

C. radiation

B. convection

56. When a vapor condenses to a liquid,

ANS: D. it gives off internal energy

57. What is true about the polytropic exponent, for a perfect gas undergoing an isobaric process?

ANS: D. n = 0

58. The pressure of a gas is directly proportional to the Kelvin temperature in

ANS: B. Gay-Lussac’s Law

59. In Joule cycle, heat is rejected at constant

ANS: B. Pressure

60. Which of the following statements about work for a quasiequilibrium process is incorrect?

ANS: C. Work is the area under a P-T diagram

61. What is the entropy of a pure substance at a temperature of absolute zero?

ANS: B. Zero

62. Atoms or ions which have the same electronic configuration?

ANS: D. isoelectronic

63. . Kelvin-Planck’s law deals with

64. Which on of the following is standard temperature and pressure (STP)?

ANS: D. 0oC and one atmosphere

65. Which work mode is a nonequilibrium work mode?

ANS: B. Energizing an electrical resistor

66. During an adiabatic, internally reversible process, what is true about the change in entropy?

ANS: A. It is always zero

67. Select the incorrect statement relating to a Carnot cycle.

ANS: There are two constant pressure process

68. Which of the following describes a streamline?

ANS: I. It is a mathematical concept

II. It cannot be crossed by the flow

69. . What is the origin of the energy conservation equation in flow systems?

ANS: B. the first law of thermodynamics

70. Which one of the following process is also called Hyperbolic Process?

ANS: C. Isothermal

71. . When heat is transferred by molecular collision. It is referred to heat transfer by

ANS: B. Convection

72. Which of the following is not a control volume?

ANS: A. Insulated tank

73. In refrigerator, the quantity 288,000 BTU/day is called

ANS: A. Ton

74. What law provides an absolute reference point for the determination of entropy?

ANS: D. third law of thermodynamics

75. What law asserts that energy has quality as well as quantity?

ANS: C. Second law of thermodynamics

76. Is an idea refrigeration cycle, liquid leaves the condenser and is expanded in such a manner that
the enthalpy of the resulting saturated mixture. This type of expansion is known as
 ANS: C. throttling process

77. The amount of heat needed to change solid to liquid is,

ANS: D. latent heat of fusion

78. The formula of EER in relation to COP is,

ANS: A.EER=COP x 3.42

79. The change in enthalpy occur at constant,

ANS: A. pressure

80. A compression ignition cycle is modelled by which idea cycle

ANS: C. Diesel cycle

81. .It is the energy associated with the kinetic random motion of large number of molecules

ANS: C. heat

82. The condition o pressure and temperature at which the liquid and its vapor are
indishtinguishable.

ANS: A. critical point

83. Which engine is use for fighter bomber plan?

ANS: B. turbojet

84. What is meant by controlled volume?

ANS: C. fixed region in space

85. Ratio of the heat taken up by a substance to the temperature at which the substance exists

ANS: B. entropy

86. Heat is absorbed by the refrigerant in a refrigerator when it

ANS: B. vaporizes

87. The heat transfer due to motion of matter caused by a change in density is called

ANS: B. convection

88. Which of the following engines is normally the least efficient?

ANS: A. gasoline engine

89. Which of the following is usually assumed to be reversible?

ANS: B. compressing a gas

ANS: A. 3Q

91. The engines on a commercial jet aircraft operate on which of the basic cycles?

ANS: D. Brayton

92. What is the temperature when water and vapor are in equilibrium with the atmospheric
pressure?

ANS: B. steam point

93. . A substance existing the gaseous phase but relatively near its saturation temperature is known
as

ANS: D. vapour

94. The state of thermodynamic system is always defined by its

ANS: C.properties

95. When gases expand and mix with others gases to fill available space, it is called

ANS: D. diffusion

96. The phenomenon of melting under pressure and freezing again when the pressure is reduces is
know as

ANS: D. regelation

97. Which of the following is NOT an extensive property?

ANS: D. Density

98. Which of the following is NOT an intensive property?

ANS: A. Kinetic Energy

C. Mass

B. Momentum

99. Compared to gases and liquids, solid are less____

ANS: B. reactive

100. Work is measured in the same units as?

ANS: D. energy