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A frictionless piston–cylinder device contains 16 lbm of superheated water vapor at 40 psia and 600°F. Steam is now cooled at constant pressure until 70 percent of it, by mass, condenses. Determine th...
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Consider a piston–cylinder device that contains 0.5 kg air. Now heat is transferred to the air at constant pressure and the air temperature increases by 5°C. Determine the expansion work done during t...
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A mass of 0.2 kg of saturated refrigerant-134a is contained in a piston–cylinder device at 200 kPa. Initially, 75 percent of the mass is in the liquid phase. Now heat is transferred to the refrigerant...
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Air in the amount of 2 lbm is contained in a well-insulated, rigid vessel equipped with a stirring paddle wheel. The initial state of this air is 30 psia and 60°F. How much work, in Btu, mu...
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Air is expanded in a polytropic process with n = 1.2 from 1 MPa and 400°C to 110 kPa in a piston–cylinder device. Determine the final temperature of the air.
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The piston of a vertical piston–cylinder device containing a gas has a mass of 60 kg and a cross sectional area of 0.04 m2, as shown in Fig. P2–43. The local atmosp...
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Nitrogen at 100 kPa and 25°C in a rigid vessel is heated until its pressure is 300 kPa. Calculate the work done and the heat transferred during this process, in kJ/kg.
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A well-insulated, rigid vessel contains 3 kg of saturated liquid water at 40°C. The vessel also contains an electrical resistor that draws 10 A when 50 V are applied. Determine the final temperature i...
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