May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
1048 pages
34h 57m
English
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APPENDIX K 10-Minute Quiz: Closed books and notes
Quiz No. 1
- Draw a complete Rayleigh line on a T-s diagram and identify its branches, Mach numbers.
- Draw a complete Fanno line on a T-s diagram and identify its branches, Mach numbers.
- Draw an ideal Brayton cycle on a T-s diagram and write its thermal efficiency.
- Draw an ideal Carnot cycle on a T-s diagram and write its thermal efficiency.
Quiz No. 2
- Write the perfect gas equation and define the variables/constants in the equation.
- What is the density of air at sea level (give a ballpark value in any unit)? What is the absolute static pressure at sea level (give the value in any unit)?
- Define a calorically perfect gas.
- Define a thermally perfect gas.
- Write the Bernoulli equation and identify its terms and limitations.
Quiz No. 3
- Write the first law of thermodynamics for a system.
- What are the dimensions of specific heat at constant pressure, cp?
- What are the dimensions of the coefficient of viscosity, μ?
- Define Newton’s law of friction in a fluid.
- Define a Newtonian fluid.
- What do we mean by continuum?
- What is the definition of “mean-free path” in a gas?
- How does the mean-free path in air vary with altitude?
Quiz No. 4
- What is the definition of Reynolds number and what does it mean?
- What is the definition of Mach number and what does it mean?
- What are the dimensions of the gas constant, R?
- How do gas constants, R1 and R2, in two different (perfect) gases relate to each other?
- How does speed of sound (wave) propagation ...
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