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#21📘 reviewer_appEasy
What is the state where solid, liquid, and gas coexist in equilibrium?
ATriple point
BCritical point
CBoiling point
DPour point
#22📘 reviewer_appEasy
At what state are liquid and gas phases indistinguishable?
ATriple point
BCritical point
CBoiling point
DPour point
#23📘 reviewer_appEasy
What heat changes temperature without changing phase?
ALatent heat
BSensible heat
CSpecific heat
DEntropy
#24📘 reviewer_appEasy
What heat raises the temperature of \( 1 \) kg of water by \( 1^\circ C \)?
AKilojoule
BBtu
CKilocalorie
DLatent heat
#25📘 reviewer_appEasy
In the absence of any irreversibilities, a thermoelectric generator will have the efficiency of a/an __________.
ACarnot cycle
BOtto cycle
CDiesel cycle
DRankine cycle
#26📘 reviewer_appEasy
Which of the following best describe both Stirling and Ericson engines?
AInternal combustion engines
BExternal combustion engines
CCarnot engines
DA vacuum
#27📘 reviewer_appEasy
Nozzles do not involve any work interaction. The fluid through this device experiences which of the following?
ANo change in potential energy
BNo change in kinetic energy
CNo change in enthalpy
DA vacuum
#28📘 reviewer_appEasy
The convergent section of a nozzle increases the velocity of the flow of the gas. What happens to its pressure?
APressure becomes constant
BPressure equals the velocity
CIt increases the pressure
DIt decreases the pressure
#29📘 reviewer_appEasy
At steam point, the temperatures of water and its vapor at standard pressure are:
Aextremes or maximum
Bunity
Cin equilibrium
Dundefined
#30📘 reviewer_appEasy
In a two-phase system, 30% moisture means:
A70% liquid and 30% vapor
B70% vapor and 30% liquid
C30% liquid and 100% vapor
D30% vapor and 100% liquid
#31📘 reviewer_appEasy
The thermal efficiency of a gas-vapor cycle is ________ the thermal efficiency of a steam turbine or gas turbine.
Agreater than
Bless than
Cnot comparable
Dequal
#32📘 reviewer_appMedium
A property that indicates the natural direction of a process is called entropy. Who coined the word entropy?
ARudolf Clausius
BLord Kelvin
CGabriel Volks
DRudolf Diesel
#33📘 reviewer_appEasy
What is the temperature when water and vapor are in equilibrium with the atmospheric pressure?
AIce point
BSteam point
CCritical point
DFreezing point
#34📘 reviewer_appEasy
When the expansion or compression of gas takes place without transfer of heat to or from the gas, the process is called:
AReversible
BAdiabatic
CPolytropic
DIsothermal
#35📘 reviewer_appEasy
What refers to a liquid whose temperature is lower than the saturation temperature corresponding to the existing pressure?
ASubcooled liquid
BSaturated liquid
CPure liquid
DCompressed liquid
#36📘 reviewer_appMedium
Which law states that the entropy of all perfect crystalline solids is zero at absolute zero temperature?
AZeroth law of thermodynamics
BFirst law of thermodynamics
CSecond law of thermodynamics
DThird law of thermodynamics
#37📘 reviewer_appEasy
Which of the following occurs in a reversible polytropic process?
AEnthalpy remains constant
BInternal energy does not change
CSome heat transfer occurs
DEntropy remains constant
#38📘 reviewer_appEasy
The change a system undergoes from one equilibrium state to another is known as:
APath
BProcess
CEnthalpy change
DEntropy change
#39📘 reviewer_appEasy
What refers to the series of states through which a system passes during a process?
APath
BQuasi-static steps
CReversibility moves
DIrreversibility moves
#40📘 reviewer_appEasy
What system has neither mass nor energy crossing its boundaries and is not influenced by surroundings?
AClosed system
BOpen system
CIsolated system
DAll of these

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