THERMO 1 BASIC CONCEPTS
THERMO 1
1 Temperature
Multiple Choice
1. Heating of a body causes its temperature to change by 20 oF. Find out the increase in
temperature in oC.
A. 20
B. −6.66
C. 11.11
D. −18.18
ANS: C
2. Temperature of an object changes by 10oC. What is the change in temperature in oR.
A. 18
B. 32
C. 24
D. −12
ANS: A
3. On some temperature scale 0oC is equivalent to 80oV and 100oC is equivalent to 250oV.
Determine the temperature in oC corresponding to 200oV.
A. 70.6
B. 74.4
C. 68.6
D. 64.4
ANS: A
4. The boiling temperature of water decreases by about 3 oC for each 1000-m rise in
altitude. What is the decrease in the boiling temperature in oF for each 1000-m rise in
altitude?
A. 6.0
B. 4.2
C. 3.0
D. 5.4
ANS: D
5. Hypertmernia of 5oC (i.e. 5oC rise above the normal body temperature) is considered
fatal. Express this fatal level of hypertmernia in R.
A. 4
B. 9
C. 10
D. 5
ANS: B
6. What is the temperature of the heated air at 130 oC in oR?
A. 816
B. 726
C. 944
D. 602
ANS: B
7. The temperature of a system rises by 40oC during a heating process. Express this rise in
kelvins.
A. 40
B. 72
C. 22.22
D. 66.67
ANS: A
8. The flash point of an engine oil is 368oF. What is the absolute flash point temperature in
K?
A. 694
B. 662
C. 400
D. 460
ANS: D
9. During temperature measurement of a body it is seen that the same numerical reading is
obtained in Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. What is the temperature in degree kelvin?
A. 300
B. −40
C. 233
D. 40
ANS: C
10. If it is given that 546 K equals 273C, then it follows that 320 K equals __ C:
A. 47
B. 23
C. 108
D. 132
ANS: A
2 Weight, Mass, Density
Multiple choice
1. What shall be the volume of a fluid having its specific gravity as 0.0004 and mass as 20
kg?
A. 0.08 m3
B. 50 m3
C. 20.0004 m3
D. 19.996 m3
ANS: B
2. What is the weight of a 1 kg substance in lbf?
A. 9.81
B. 32
C. 2.205
D. 4.487
ANS: C
3. At sea level, the weight of 1 kg mass in SI units is 9.81-N. The weight of 1 lbm mass in
English units is _____.
A. 1 lbf
B. 32.2 lbf
C. 62.4 lbf
D. 9.81 lbf
ANS: A
4. A 10-kg steel tank has a volume of 0.3 m 3 is filled with liquid water. Assuming that the
density of water is 1000 kg/m3, determine the weight of the combined system, in N.
A. 3041 N
B. 1088 N
C. 2056 N
D. 3154 N
ANS: A
5. Determine the weight of the air contained in a room whose dimensions are 4 m x 6 m x 3
m. Assume the density of the air is 1.16 kg/m 3.
A. 918 N
B. 819 N
C. 189 N
D. 198 N
ANS: B
6. A 5-kg rock is thrown upward with a force of 140 N at a location where the local
gravitational acceleration is 9.7 m/s2. Determine the acceleration of the rock, in m/s 2.
A. 15.7
B. 28.4
C. 18.3
D. 24.2
ANS: C
7. The reactive force developed by a jet engine to push an airplane is called thrust, and the
thrust developed by the engine is 76,000 lbf. Express this thrust in kN.
A. 250
B. 206
C. 166
D. 338
ANS: D
8. The standard kilogram is a platinum-iridium cylinder 39.0 mm in height and 39.0 mm in
diameter. What is the density of the material?
A. 11364 kg/m3
B. 21464 kg/m3
C. 8644 kg/m3
D. 3807 kg/m3
ANS: B
9. A solid object is made of two materials, one material having density of 2 000 kg/m 3 and
the other having density of 5 000 kg/m 3. If the object contains equal volumes of the
materials, what is its average density?
A. 3500 kg/m3
B. 7000 kg/m3
C. 2667 kg/m3
D. 3000 kg/m3
ANS: A
10. A solid object is made of two materials, one material having density of 2000 kg/m 3 and
the other having density of 4000 kg/m 3. If the object contains equal masses of the
materials, what is its average density?
A. 7000 kg/m3
B. 3500 kg/m3
C. 3000 kg/m3
D. 2667 kg/m3
ANS: D
3 Pressure
Multiple Choice
1. If the pressure inside a rubber balloon is 1000 mm Hg, what is this pressure in pounds-
force per square inch?
A. 19.3
B. 13.2
C. 13.6
D. 14.8
ANS: A
2. The pressure in a water line is 1800 kPa. What is the line pressure in kg/cm2?
A. 50
B. 101.3
C. 18.35
D. 14.7
ANS: C
3. Convert 2.5 bar to psi.
A. 48.55
B. 36.27
C. 12.56
D. 18.81
ANS: B
4. A force of 1200 N is uniformly applied on a piston 100 mm in diameter. Find the
pressure on the piston.
A. 182.4 kPa
B. 66.8 kPa
C. 58.4 kPa
D. 152.8 kPa
ANS: D
5. A tube containing an oil of specific gravity 0.88 to a depth of 75 cm. Find the gage
pressure at this depth, in kPa.
A. 7.52
B. 6.47
C. 5.36
D. 8.79
ANS: B
6. A vacuum recorded in a tank is 500 mm of Hg. Find the absolute pressure in the tank in
kPa. The barometric reading is 760 mm of Hg.
A. 36.67
B. 24.28
C. 40.52
D. 18.36
ANS: A
7. A vessel of cylindrical shape is 30 in. in diameter and 50 in. high. It contains 3 kg of gas.
Determine the specific volume of the gas in ft3/lb.
A. 15.1
B. 8.4
C. 12.7
D. 3.09
ANS: D
8. Determine the absolute pressure of gas in a tank if the pressure gauge mounted on tank
reads 50 kPa pressure.
A. 151.3
B. 240.4
C. 188.2
D. 288.5
ANS: A
9. Determine the pressure of compressed air in an air vessel, if the manometer mounted on
it shows a pressure of 0.8 m of mercury. Assume density of mercury to be 13.6 x 10 3 kg/m3
and atmospheric pressure as 101 kPa.
A. 312.6 kPaa
B. 188.2 kPaa
C. 450.8 kPaa
D. 207.7 kPaa
ANS: D
10. If the gauge pressure of oil in a tube is 10.22 kPa and oil’s specific gravity is 0.8, then
determine the depth of oil inside the tube
A. 1.667 m
B. 1.302 m
C. 2.144 m
D. 2.433 m
ANS: B
4 Conservation of Mass
Multiple Choice
1. An ideal fluid flows through a pipe made of two sections with diameters of 1.0 and 2.0
inches, respectively. The speed of the fluid flow through the 2.0-inch section will be what
factor times that through the 1.0-inch section?
A. 1/2
B. 1/4
C. 4
D. 2
ANS: B
2. The velocity of a liquid through a 2.0-cm-radius pipe is 3.5 m/s. What is the volume flow
rate in the pipe, in cubic meter per hour?
A. 15.8
B. 14.4
C. 107.6
D. 500
ANS: A
3. An ideal fluid, of density 7503 kg/m3, flows at 2.4 m/s through a pipe of radius 10 mm.
What is the fluid flow, in kg/s?
A. 1.22
B. 3.75
C. 0.57
D. 2.00
ANS: C
4. An ideal fluid, of density 800 kg/m3, flows at 6.0 m/s through a level pipe with radius of
0.50 cm. The pressure in the fluid is 13.5 kPa. This pipe connects to a second level pipe,
with radius of 2.0 cm. Find the speed of flow in the second pipe, in m/s.
A. 1.204
B. 0.025
C. 1.875
D. 0.375
ANS: D
5. The flow rate of blood through the average human aorta, of radius 10 mm, is about 90
cm3/s. What is the speed of the blood flow through the aorta, in m/s?
A. 0.287
B. 0.116
C. 0.382
D. 0.611
ANS: A
6. The Garfield Thomas water tunnel at Pennsylvania State University has a circular cross-
section that constricts from a diameter of 2.8 m to the test section, which is 1.2 m in
diameter. If the speed of flow is 3.0 m/s in the large-diameter pipe, determine the speed of
flow in the test section.
A. 25.4 m/s
B. 20.2 m/s
C. 16.33 m/s
D. 13.6 m/s
ANS: C
7. It takes 2.0 minutes to fill a gas tank with 50 liters of gasoline. If the pump nozzle is 1.0
cm in radius, what is the average speed of the gasoline as it leaves the nozzle? (1 000 liters
= one cubic meter)
A. 3.33 m/s
B. 2.50 m/s
C. 2.00 m/s
D. 1.33 m/s
ANS: D
8. Water is being sprayed from a nozzle at the end of a garden hose of diameter 1.0 in. If
the nozzle has an opening of diameter 0.25 in., and if the water leaves the nozzle at a speed
of 70 ft/s, what is the speed of the water inside the hose, in ft/s?
A. 4.37
B. 5.58
C. 7.01
D. 6.32
ANS: A
9. The inlet diameter of the pump is 25 in. while the flow through the pump is 900
lbm/sec. The density of the water is 54 lbm/ft 3. What is the velocity at the pump inlet in
ft/sec?
A. 6.55
B. 10.33
C. 4.89
D. 15.62
ANS: C
10. Fluid having a density of 60 lbm/ft3 flows through a 6 in. pipe to a heater. It leaves
through an 8-in. pipe with a density of 56 lbm/ft3. If the flow velocity is 21.5 ft/sec in the 6
in. section, what is the flow velocity in the 8-in. section?
A. 18.2 ft/s
B. 12.1 ft/s
C. 35.8 ft/s
D. 50.4 ft/s
ANS: B
