Practice Test: Question Set - 14
1. Which of the following is not affected by temperature changes?
- (A) Fugacity
- (B) Activity co-efficient
- (C) Free energy
- (D) None of these
2. For multi-component multiple phases to be in equilibrium at the same pressure and temperature, the __________ of each component must be same in all phases.
- (A) Chemical potential
- (B) Fugacity
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
3. Helmholtz free energy (A) is defined as
- (A) A = H - TS
- (B) A = E - TS
- (C) A = H + TS
- (D) None of these
4. For a spontaneous process, free energy
- (A) Is zero
- (B) Increases
- (C) Decreases whereas the entropy increases
- (D) And entropy both decrease
5. The Carnot co-efficient of performance (COP) of a domestic air conditioner compared to a household refrigerator is
- (A) Less
- (B) More
- (C) Same
- (D) Dependent on climatic conditions
6. In an ideal refrigeration cycle, the change in internal energy of the fluid is
- (A) +ve
- (B) -ve
- (C) 0
- (D) Either of the above three; depends on the nature of refrigerant
7. Melting of ice is an example of an __________ process.
- (A) Adiabatic
- (B) Isothermal
- (C) Isometric
- (D) None of these
8. Which of the following equations is used for the prediction of activity co-efficient from experiments?
- (A) Van Laar equation
- (B) Margules equation
- (C) Wilson's equation
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
9. Measurement of thermodynamic property of temperature is facilitated by __________ law of thermodynamics.
- (A) 1st
- (B) Zeroth
- (C) 3rd
- (D) None of these
10. A system undergoes a change from a given initial state to a given final state either by an irreversible process or by a reversible process, then (where, Δ S1 and Δ SR are the entropy changes of the system for the irreversible and reversible processes respectively)
- (A) Δ S1 is always < Δ SR
- (B) Δ S1 is sometimes > Δ SR
- (C) Δ S1 is always > Δ SR
- (D) Δ S1 is always = Δ SR
11. Refrigeration cycle
- (A) Violates second law of thermodynamics
- (B) Involves transfer of heat from low temperature to high temperature
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
12. On a P-V diagram of an ideal gas, suppose a reversible adiabatic line intersects a reversible isothermal line at point A. Then at a point A, the slope of the reversible adiabatic line (∂P/∂V)s and the slope of the reversible isothermal line (∂P/∂V)T are related as (where, y = Cp/Cv)
- (A) (∂P/∂V)S = (∂P/∂V)T
- (B) (∂P/∂V)S = [(∂P/∂V)T]Y
- (C) (∂P/∂V)S = y(∂P/∂V)T
- (D) (∂P/∂V)S = 1/y(∂P/∂V)T
13. In the reaction, C + O2 → CO2; ΔH = - 94 kcal. What is the heat content (enthalpy) of O2?
- (A) -94 kcal
- (B) > -94 kcal
- (C) < - 94 kcal
- (D) Zero
14. "At the absolute zero temperature, the entropy of every perfectly crystalline substance becomes zero". This follows from the
- (A) Third law of thermodynamics
- (B) Second law of thermodynamics
- (C) Nernst heat theorem
- (D) Maxwell's relations
15. The expression for the work done for a reversible polytropic process can be used to obtain the expression for work done for all processes, except reversible __________ process.
- (A) Isobaric
- (B) Isothermal
- (C) Adiabatic
- (D) None of these
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