Easy

1. A10-kg body falls from rest, with negligible interaction with its surroundings (no friction).
Determine its velocity after it falls 5 m. Answer: 9.905 m/s
2. The inner and outer surfaces of a 15-m x 16-m brick wall of thickness 80 cm and thermal
conductivity 0.69 W/m-K are maintained at the temperatures of 20 °C and 5 °C, respectively.
Determine the rate of heat transfer through the wall in HP. Answer: 4.16 HP
3. Property of a fluid by which its molecules attracted is called ________. Answer: Cohesion
4. A piece of metal of SG = 7 floats in mercury of SG = 13.6. What metal fraction of its volume is
under Mercury? Answer: 0.515
5. A steam pipe having a surface temperature of 250°C passes through a room where the
temperature is 27°C. The outside diameter of the pipe is 100 mm, and emissivity factor is 0.8.
Calculate the radiated heat loss for 3 m pipe length. Answer: 2852.25 W
6. A diesel cycle operates on air which enters the compression process at 85 kPa and 30°C. If the
compression ratio is 16 and the maximum temperature is 2000°C, the cut-off ratio is nearest to
_________. Answer: 2.47
7. Find the sum of the exponents of (4x² + 5y⁷)³? Answer: 54
8. A steel rod is heated from 25 to 250 degrees Celsius. Its coefficient of thermal expansion is 1x10-
5 and E = 100GPa. If the rod has liberty to dilate, the thermal stress developed in it is? Answer :
None
9. A dimensionless number interpreted as the ratio of the inertial forces to viscous forces in the
fluid. Answer : Reynold’s Number
10. A liquid whose temperature is lower than the saturation temperature corresponding to the
given pressure. Answer : Subcooled Liquid

Average

1. A vessel having a volume of 0.6 m³ contains 3.0 kg of liquid water and water vapour mixture in
equilibrium at a pressure of 0.5 MPa. Calculate the density of liquid at the given condition. At
0.5 MPa(νg = 0.375 m³/kg ;νf = 0.00109 m³/kg). Answer: 917.431 kg/m³
2. An air standard constant pressure cycle has a compression ratio of 18.2. Air is at 80°F and 14.7
psia at the beginning of the compression process and heat is added at 4.31% of the stroke.
Accounting for the variation of specific heats with temperature, determine the ideal thermal
efficiency of the cycle. Answer: 64.56%
3. Calculate the axial stress for a thick walled cylinder, where pi = 450 psi, po = (atmospheric
pressure), ri = 2in and ro = 4in. Answer: 150 psi
4. A mine hoist uses a 2” – 6x19 monitor steel wire rope (Er = 12x10⁶ psi, Su = 106 ksi), wr = 1.6Dr².
The rope is used to haul loads of 4 tons from the shaft 80 fathoms deep. The drum has a
diameter of 6 ft, the sheaves are of good-quality cast steel, and the smallest is 3 ft in diameter.
Using a maximum hoisting speed of 1200ft/min and a maximum acceleration of 2ft/s², estimate
the tensile load on the wire, neglecting the effects of bending. Answer: 11759.70 lb
 5. A squared and ground ends of helical spring has a total of 12 coils and G = 83 GPa. If the spring
has an outside diameter of 14 cm and a wire diameter of 0.75 cm, calculate the deflection
caused by a 30 kg load. Answer: 208.55 mm
2 12
6. Find the term involving x⁹ in the expansion of (𝑥 2 + 𝑥) ?Answer: 25344x⁹
7. A circle is circumscribed about a hexagon. Determine the radius of the circle if the area outside
the hexagon but inside the circle is 15 sq. cm?Answer: 5.25 cm
8. Two large plane surfaces are 25 mm apart and the space between them is filled with a liquid of
viscosity = 0.958 Pa-sec. Assuming the velocity gradient to be a straight line, what force is
required to pull a very thin plate of 0.37 m^2 area at the constant speed of 0.3 m/sec if the plate
is 8.4 mm form one of the surfaces. Answer : 19.06 N
9. The inside temperature of a furnace is 1500 F and its walls are lined with a 1/3 ft thick refractory
brick. The ambient temperature is 100 F. If the variation of thermal conductivity of the
refractory is given by k = 0.10 + (5x10-5)T whose unit is in BTU/hr in, Compute the rate of heat
flow through the walls and the temperature profile across the wall. Answer : 588 BTU/hr ft
10. A round steel shaft 3 m long tapers uniformly form a 60 mm diameter at one end to a 30 mm
diameter at the other end. Assuming that there is no discontinuity results over each infinitesimal
length, compute the angular twist for the entire length when the shaft is transmitting a torque
of 170 N-m. Use G = 83 Gpa. Answer : 1.29 degrees

Difficult

1. A temperature scale of certain thermometer is given by the relation t = a ln p + b, where a and b

are constants and p is the thermometric property of the fluid in the thermometer. If at the ice
point and steam point the thermometric properties are found to be 1.5 and 7.5 respectively
what will be the temperature corresponding to the thermometric property of 3.5 on Celsius
scale. Answer: 52.646 °C
2. A steel cable is suspended between two supports at the same elevation 500 ft apart. The load
including the weight of the cable is 500 lbs per horizontal foot. Calculate the total length of the
cable is the sag of the cable is not to exceed 30 ft. Answer: 504.756 ft.
3. A thermometer reading 18°F is brought into a room where the temperature is 70°F; a minute
later, the thermometer reading is 31°F. Determine the temperature reading 5 minutes after the
thermometer is first brought into the room. Answer: 57.68°F
4. A cyclic process expands and compresses by the relations 2𝑉 − 4𝑃 = 3 and 𝑉 2 = 16𝑃
respectively being 0.25 ksi as the lowest pressure and 2.25 ksi as its highest. Determine the net
work done (lb-ft) by the cycle. [Note: V(𝑖𝑛3 ) & P(k𝑠𝑖)]. Answer: 55.56lb-ft
5. A system having a paddle wheel which does work is adiabatic and at constant pressure. It
contains 0.3 lbm of air at 20 psia, and after it receives 14,004 ft-lbf of work the temperature
rises from 500 R to 750 R. Find the mechanical work applied to the system. Answer : 12.87 BTU