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| What is Potential Energy? Kinetic Energy? |
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| Potential energy is energy possessed by reason of position or deformation. Kinetic energy is energy possessed by reason of motion. |
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| What are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics? |
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| 1st: Energy cannot be created or destroyed but may be converted from one form to another. 2nd: No machine, actual or ideal, can both continuously and completely transform heat into mechanical energy. Nothing is 100% efficient. |
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| Name three ways that heat is transferred |
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| Radiation, Convection, Conduction |
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| What is a British Thermal Unit? |
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| A BTU is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of One Pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. |
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| Convert 22° Celsius to °Fahrenheit. |
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| Multiply 22° by 1.8 (which equals 39.6), then add 32, which makes a total of 71.6°F. |
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| Convert 105°F to °Celsius |
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| Subtract 105° by 32 (which equals 73), and then divide by 1.8 which brings you to 40.56° |
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| How many BTU's are required to raise one pound of water from 50°F to 210°F? |
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| What is the Latent Heat of Fusion? |
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| Heat added to solid to cause a change of state to a liquid. (One pound of Ice at 32°F becomes Water with the addition of 144 BTU's of heat) |
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| What is the Latent Heat of Evaporation? |
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| Heat added to a liquid to cause a change of state to a gas/vapor. (One pound of water at 212°F becomes one pound of steam at 212°F when 970.3 BTU's of heat are added) |
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| What happens to the boiling point of water as the pressure increases? |
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| What happens to the Enthalpy of Evaporation as the pressure increases? |
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| What is the definition of specific heat? |
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| The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of any substance one °F |
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| Solids, liquids, and gases |
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| Pressure in a system is measured to be 60kPa. at a later time the pressure is 40kPa. What is the Δp? |
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| Which system contains more atoms: 5 mol of helium (A=4) or 1 mol of Neon (A=20) |
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| The temp of a glass of water increases from 20°C to 30°C. What is ΔT? |
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Which has a sublimation temp that is higher than a melting temp?
Water or Carbon dioxide? |
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| You have two containers. One full of helium gas, and the other, of equal mass, of nitrogen gas. How do the temperatures compare? |
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| Process that is in thermal equilibrium at all times. |
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