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ME1 THERMODYNAMICS
SELF ASSESMENT QUESTIONAIRE #1
1. An apple “weighs'' 60 g and has a volume of 75 cm3 in a refrigerator at 8 degree Celsius. What is the
apple’s density?
2. A stainless-steel storage tank contains 5 kg of oxygen gas and 7 kg of nitrogen gas. How many kmoles
are in the tank
3. A steel cylinder of mass 4 kg contains 4 L of water 25 degree Celsius at 100 kPa. Find the total mass
and volume of the system
4. An aluminum piston of 2.5 kg is in the standard gravitational field, and a force of 25 N is applied
vertically up. Find the acceleration of the piston.
5. A steel beam of 700 kg is raised by a crane with an acceleration of 2 m/s2 relative to the ground at a
location where the local gravitational acceleration is 9.5 m/s2 Find the required force.
6. A 15 kg steel gas tank holds 300 L of liquid gasoline with a density of 800 kg/m3. If the system is
decelerated with 2 g, what is the needed force?
7. A 5 cm3 container is filled with 900 kg of granite (density of 2400 kg/m3). The rest of the volume is air,
with density equal to 1.15 kg/m3. Find the mass of air and the overall (average) specific volume.
8. The deep body temperature of a healthy person is 37 degree Celsius. What is it in kelvins?
9. What is the temperature of the heated air at 150 degree Celsius in F and R?
10. The temperature of a system drops by 45 F during a cooling process. Express this drop in temperature
in K, R, and Celsius.
11. A vacuum gage connected to a chamber reads 35 kPa at a location where the atmospheric is 92 kPa.
Determine the absolute pressure in the chamber.
12. If the pressure inside a rubber balloon is 1500 mmHg, what is this pressure in pounds-force per square
inch (psi)?
13. Determine the atmospheric pressure at a location where the barometric reading is 750 mmHg. Take the
density of mercury to be 13,600 kg/m3.
14. The vacuum pressure of a condenser is given to be 80 kPa. If the atmospheric pressure is 98 kPa,
what is the gage pressure and absolute pressure in kPa, kN/m2, lbf/in2, psi, and mmHg.
15. Consider a 70 kg woman who has a total foot imprint area of 400 cm2. She wishes to walk on the snow,
but the snow cannot withstand pressures greater than 0.5 kPa. Determine the minimum size of the
snowshoes needed (imprint area per shoe) to enable her to walk on the snow without sinking.
16. Determine the pressure exerted on the surface of a submarine cruising 175 ft below the free surface of
the sea. Assume that the barometric pressure is 14.7 psia and the specific gravity of seawater is 1.03.
17. The gage pressure in a liquid at a depth of 3 m is read to be 42 kPa. Determine the gage pressure in
the same liquid at a depth of 9 m.
18. Determine the atmospheric pressure at a location where the barometric reading is 750 mmHg. Take the
density of mercury to be 13,600 kg/m3.
19. The temperature of ambient air in a certain location is measured to be -40 C. Express this temperature
in Fahrenheit, Kelvin, and Rankine units.
20. A 3-kg plastic tank that has a volume of 0.2 m3 is filled with liquid water. Assuming the density of water
is 1000 kg/m3, determine the weight of the combined system.

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