MOCK TEST FOR CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS

FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

1. ______ is the study of heat, work, energy, and the changes they produce in the states of
systems.
2. You heat 22.05 g of solid in a test tube to 100.00°C and add it to 50.00 g of water in a coffee-cup
calorimeter. The water temperature changes from 25.10°C to 28.49°C. Find the specific heat
capacity of the solid.
3. 50.0 grams of aluminun tubing is healed to 95.8°C and placed in an insulated vessel contains
grams of water at 28.2°C. Assuming no loss of water, what is the final temperature (in°C)?
4. An adiabatic cylinder fitted with a frictionless piston contains 1.00 mol of nitrogen gas, at T-287
K. The external pressure is reversibly decreased until the gas expanded and final pressure and
temperature of 2.30 atm and 246 K, respectively. Assuming that the gas is a perfect gas,
determine the initial pressure of the gas.
5. An adiabatic cylinder decreased fitted with a frictionless piston contains 1.00 mol of monoatomic
perfect gas in V=1.40L. The external pressure is reversibly decreased until the gas expanded and
have a final volume and temperature of 2.50 L and 298K, respectively. What is the initial
temperature?
6. The external pressure on a gas is 5.80 atm, and the volume changes from 13.88 L to 8.36 L.
During this process, the surrounding absorbs 1236 J of heat from the gas. Calculate the change in
internal energy.
7. A 33.2 g titanium bicycle part is added to 75.0 g of water in a coffee-cup calorimeter at 50.00° C
and the temperature drops to 49.30° C. What was the initial temperature (in °C) of the metal
(the specific heat of titanium is 0.228 J/g∙°C)?
8. A cylinder fitted with a frictionless piston contains 3.00 mol of He gas at P=1.00 atm and is in a
large constant-temperature bath at 400 K. The pressure is reversibly increased to 5.00 atm. Find
w and Q for this process.
9. The constant-pressure heat capacity of a sample of a perfect gas was found vary with
temperature according to the expression cp/J/K = 23.4 + 02856 (T/K). Calculate the q when the
temperature is raised from 28°C to 225°C at constant-pressure process.
10. When gasoline burns in a car engine, the heat released causes the gaseous products CO₂ and
H₂O to expand, which pushes the pistons outward. Excess heat is removed by the radiator. If the
expanding gases do 451 J of work on the pistons and the system releases 325 J to the
surroundings as heat, calculate the ∆U in J and kcal.
11. Answer number 6 in sample probs
12. Answer cyclic in canvas

SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

11. Calculate the ∆S for each of the following changes in state of 2.50 mol of a perfect monoatomic
gas with cvm = for all temperatures:

(a) (1.50 atm, 400 K) → (3.00 atm, 600 K)

(b) (2.50 atm, 20.0 L) → (2.00 atm, 30.0L)

(c) (28.5 L, 400 K) → (42.0 L, 400 K)

12. The specific heat capacity, Cp, of water is nearly constant at 4.184 J/(g∙K) in the temperature
range 25°C to 75°C at 1 atm. Find ∆S when 250 g of water is reversibly heated from 25°C to 60°C at 1
atm.

13. A Carnot-cycle heat engine does 2400 J of work per cycle and has an efficiency of 48.0%. Find qH,
and qC for one cycle.

14. Consider a heat engine that uses reservoirs at 1000°C and 50°C: (a) Calculate the maximum
possible efficiency. (b) If qH is 5000J, find the maximum value of -w.

15. Calculate ∆S for the mixing of 10.0 grams of He(g) at 120°C and 1.50 bar with 10.0 grams of O₂ (g)
at 120°C and 1.50 bar.