Sample Exam # 3

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Exercise 17.28
As a new mechanical engineer for Engines Inc., you have been assigned to design brass
pistons to slide inside steel cylinders. The engines in which these pistons will be used will
operate between 20.0 and 150.0 . Assume that the coefficients of expansion are
constant over this temperature range.
Part A
If the piston just fits inside the chamber at 20.0 , will the engines be able to run at higher
temperatures? Explain.
Essay answers are limited to about 500 words (3800 characters maximum, including
spaces).
ANSWER My Answer:
The engine will not run at higher temps because the brass
:
expands faster than steel as a function temp increase

Part B
If the cylindrical pistons are 25.000

in diameter at 20.0

, what should be the minimum

diameter of the cylinders at that temperature so the pistons will operate at 150.0
Express your answer using five significant figures
ANSWER
25.026
=
:
Correct

Exercise 17.63
A vessel whose walls are thermally insulated contains 3.00

of water and 0.600

of ice,

all at a temperature of 0.0 . The outlet of a tube leading from a boiler in which water is
boiling at atmospheric pressure is inserted into the water.
Part A
How many grams of steam must condense inside the vessel (also at atmospheric pressure)
to raise the temperature of the system to 24.0
container.

? You can ignore the heat transferred to the

ANSWER
:

218
Correct

Exercise 17.45
A 500.0

chunk of an unknown metal, which has been in boiling water for several minutes,

is quickly dropped into an insulating Styrofoam beaker containing 1.50

temperature (20.0

of water at room

). After waiting and gently stirring for 5.00 minutes, you observe that the

water's temperature has reached a constant value of 22.0

Part A

Assuming that the Styrofoam absorbs a negligibly small amount of heat and that no heat
was lost to the surroundings, what is the specific heat of the metal?
ANSWER
322
=
:
Correct
Part B
Which is more useful for storing thermal energy: this metal or an equal weight of water?
Explain.
Essay answers are limited to about 500 words (3800 characters maximum, including
spaces).
ANSWER My Answer:
The specific heat of water is over 13 times greater than the
:
unknown metal, so the water is more useful for storing
thermal energy.

Part C
What if the heat absorbed by the Styrofoam actually is not negligible. How would the
specific heat you calculated in part (a) be in error? Would it be too large, too small, or still
correct? Explain.
Essay answers are limited to about 500 words (3800 characters maximum, including
spaces).
ANSWER My Answer:
Yes there would be an error. The metal would appear as if its
:
specific heat was lower than in reality.

Exercise 17.76
The emissivity of tungsten is 0.350. A tungsten sphere with a radius of 1.05

is suspended

within a large evacuated enclosure whose walls are at a temperature of 300.0

Part A

What power input is required to maintain the sphere at a temperature of 2800.0

if heat

conduction along the supports is neglected?

Take the Stefan-Boltzmann constant to be 5.67108
ANSWER
1690
=
:
Correct

Exercise 17.72
You are asked to design a cylindrical steel rod 60.0
that will conduct 140.0
atmosphere.
Part A

from a furnace at 430.0

What must the rod's diameter be?

ANSWER
=
:

long, with a circular cross section,

to a container of boiling water under 1

8.04
Correct

Problem 17.101
For your cabin in the wilderness, you decide to build a primitive refrigerator out of
Styrofoam, planning to keep the interior cool with a block of ice that has an initial mass of
28.0

. The box has dimensions of 0.450

0.850

0.550

. Water from melting ice

collects in the bottom of the box. Suppose the ice block is at 0.00
temperature is 23.0
Part A

and the outside

If the top of the empty box is never opened and you want the interior of the box to remain
at 4.00 for exactly one week, until all the ice melts, what must be the thickness of the
Styrofoam?
ANSWER
2.70
=
:
Correct

Exercise 18.8
A welder using a tank of volume 7.20102

fills it with oxygen (with a molar mass of

32.0
) at a gauge pressure of 3.20105
and temperature of 38.7 . The tank has a
small leak, and in time some of the oxygen leaks out. On a day when the temperature is 22.0
, the gauge pressure of the oxygen in the tank is 1.80105
Part A
Find the initial mass of oxygen.

ANSWER
:

0.374
Correct

Part B
Find the mass of oxygen that has leaked out.
ANSWER
0.110
=
:
Correct

Problem 18.62
A vertical cylindrical tank contains 1.70

of an ideal gas under a pressure of 1.05

at

22.0 . The round part of the tank has a radius of 11.0 , and the gas is supporting a piston
that can move up and down in the cylinder without friction.
Part A
What is the mass of this piston?
ANSWER
=
:

413
Correct

Part B
How tall is the column of gas that is supporting the piston?
ANSWER
1.03
=
:
Correct

Problem 18.79
Part A
For what mass of molecule or particle is the rms speed equal to 1.10
of 300 ?
ANSWER
:

at a temperature

1.031014
Correct

Part B
If the particle is an ice crystal, how many molecules does it contain? The molar mass of
water is 18.0
ANSWER
:
Part C

.
=

3.441011
Correct

Calculate the diameter of the particle if it is a spherical piece of ice.

ANSWER
2.77106
=
:
Correct

Exercise 18.7
A Jaguar XK8 convertible has an eight-cylinder engine. At the beginning of its compression
stroke, one of the cylinders contains 496
and a temperature of 27.0
volume of 46.4
Part A

of air at atmospheric pressure (

. At the end of the stroke, the air has been compressed to a

and the gauge pressure has increased to 2.80106

Compute the final temperature.

ANSWER
=
:

533
Correct

Score Summary:
Your score on this assignment is 96.5%.
You received 120.62 out of a possible total of 125 points.
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