MEC2405 Thermodynamics I

Practical 6 - Take-home Test 5 PM

Group B
TEST DURATION: 25 min writing time + 15 min of scanning, collating and uploading to Moodle

• This is an open book (in its broadest sense) test. To complete the question(s), you may need to refer to
property tables, which can be found in the prescribed text book and are also available through the
MEC2405 Moodle page, as well as mathematical tables and any other resources like Matlab,
Mathematica, etc. that you choose to use.
• To earn full marks, you must include:
• Concise statement of the problem, known variables and parameters and what must be found
• Schematic showing coordinate system, problem geometry, pertinent parameters, control
volume, etc.
• List of pertinent simplifying assumptions
• State appropriate physical laws and/or conservation principles
• Compile property values needed for subsequent calculations and identify/cite the sources
from which they were obtained
• Calculations and applications of lasts and principles
• Discussion of results, e.g. summary of key conclusions, inference of trends, verification
• show all your working clearly.
• Write your answers in pen on plain or ruled A4 paper in a single-column format using legible writing.
• Number and initial the top right corner of each page.
• Scan or photograph your work in portrait format, ensuring the text is legible and collate your solution
pages into a single PDF file.
• Name the PDF file: <Your Student Id Number>.pdf
• Upload this SINGLE PDF FILE in portrait format to Moodle before the due time.
• If you encounter technical difficulties, contact the lecturer or demonstrators immediately.
• Late submissions without special considerations in effect will receive no marks.



Your test will be marked using the template below:



Feedback on General Problem Setting Up and Solution Excellent Good Needs Poor Not
Methodology Improvem Applicable
ent
Concise statement of the problem, known variables and
parameters and what must be found

Schematic showing coordinate system, problem geometry,

pertinent parameters, control volume, etc

List of pertinent simplifying assumptions

State appropriate physical laws and/or conservation principles

Compile property values needed for subsequent calculations

and identify the sources from which they were obtained

Calculations and applications of lasts and principles

Discussion of results, e.g. summary of key conclusions,

inference of trends, verification
FINAL GRADE
A - Almost all correct (HD)
B - Mostly correct (D)
C - Getting there (C)
D - Just enough to pass (P)
E - Mostly incorrect or not completed (N)

Question 1

Let us consider the evaporation of a liquid at constant pressure, i.e. while the liquid is heated it is contained within an
unconstrained piston-cylinder arrangement with the piston initially resting on the liquid.

(a) Derive an expression for the specific entropy change as a function of the specific enthalpy change and
temperature.
(b) Verify your result deduced in (a) using tabulated thermodynamics property data (experimental data).
(c) What does the change in specific enthalpy represent and what is it equivalent to?
(d) What can you deduce that (T ds) represents and its integral between the two states, showing the later
diagrammatically on a T − s diagram?
(e) What is the work done by the substance during evaporation?
(f) If we desired to use this process to do some work, what is the efficiency for the experimental data you used in
(b)?
(g) Comment on (f) and explain where most of the heat supplied to the substance went during evaporation and its
usefulness - use a microscopic view of the substance if required in your explanation.

Note: showing final results or answers without detailed analytical work and explanations will receive 

no marks.