Assignment

1 (100 points) Mohammad Fadil Abdul Wahab

Name:_____________________________________________________________

1. List 4 examples of intensive property and 3 examples of extensive property.

2. Is energy balance for a nuclear reactor contradicts the conservation of energy
principle, why?

3. For a definition of an isolated system, what are the things that can and cannot
cross its boundary?

4. From Newton’s equation. 1N = ________

5. A water tank has a capacity of 100 gallon (US). If the tank is full, calculate how
many kmol of water in the tank?

6. Air Canada’s Boeing 767 required 20400 kg of Jet Fuel Type A for a domestic
flight from Montreal to Edmonton. The fuel-ground crews mistakenly filled the
plane with 20400 pound of fuel instead.
a. Calculate the actual amount of fuel being refill in kg?
b. How serious was this problem since the fuel gauge was also
malfunction.
b. Calculate the amount fuel required in liter?

7. A one tonne lorry is hung up 100 meter in the air. What is the potential energy
in mmBTU?

8. If the absolute P is 12.5 psi, what is gage or vacuum pressure?

9. If the height of a fluid level in the manometer is 0.5m, calculate the gage
pressure in Pa if the manometer fluid is water.

10. A gas contain in a cylinder piston system at 27oC. The diameter of the cylinder is
0.5 meter and the mass of piston & the load above it is 0.6 ton (not metric ton). The
system is heated to 78oC where its boundary moved by 5 feet.
a. Draw the system, is this a closed or open system, why?
b. What is Pabs of the system in Pa, atm, bar, psi and mmHg?
c. What type of process is this?
d. What is the Tf (Final Temp) in K, oF and R?
e. What is the ΔT in oC, K, oF and R?
e. If W = Force x Distance, calculate boundary work in kJ?

Due:

Thermodynamics sem 01-2018/19 SCEE, UTM