EML3100 - Exam #2: Old Exams and Tips

These are links to text versio of the Fall 1997 and Fall 1996 Thermo Exams #2. Solutions to these exams will be put in the CoE Library on Thursday, October 8, 1998.

Fall 1997 Thermo Exam #2

Fall 1996 Thermo Exam #2

Things you should know by now...
(or things you should know, and know how to use when you take Exam #2)

• Work
  • which equation to use for which process
  • sign convention
  • UNITS
• Heat
  • sign convention
  • UNITS
• Work and Heat
  • inexact differentials
  • path dependent
  • transient phenomena
  • UNITS
• First law of Thermodynamics
  • closed systems
  • open systems, SSSF
  • Energy - internal, kinetic, potential
  • enthalpy
  • specific heat - C_v and C_p; how to use in finding delta-u and delta-h
  • UNITS
• Ideal Gases
  • when to expect ideal gas behavior
  • using C_vo and C_po
  • finding p, v, T, u, or h
  • and don't forget calculating R
• More Plots
  • p-v
  • p-u
  • p-h
  • T-v
  • p-T (although you don't really need this one right now...)
  • using them to find the phase
• Intensive Thermodynamic state properties
  • p - pressure
  • u - specific internal energy
  • h - specific enthalpy
  • T - temperature
  • v - specific volume
  • x - quality (when it applies)
  • using an 2 intensive T-D properties to find the remaining ones
  • UNITS
• UNITS

-Dr. P.