Name:______________________________Class:__________________ Date:__________________ Assessment Thermodynamics Teacher Notes and Answers 10 Thermodynamics THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS 1. 2. 3. 4. b a d d Given 8. a 9. According to the second law of thermodynamics, energy (Qc) must be given up as heat to a lower-temperature body from a heat engine. Because Qc is always greater than zero, the ratio of energy transferred from the engine as heat to the energy transferred to the engine as heat (Qc/Qh) is greater than zero. For an engine to be 100 percent efficient, this ratio must be zero. Therefore, the second law of thermodynamics predicts that no heat engine can be 100 percent efficient. 10. 0.25 Given Qh = 7.6 105 J Qc = 5.7 105 J Solution Q eff = 1 c Qh 2 Qc = Qh 3 Solution 2 Qh Qc 2 1 eff = 1 = 1 3 = 1 = 3 3 Qh Qh 5. c Given Qh = 2.5 104 J Wnet = 7.0 103 J Solution W 7.0 103 J eff = net = = 0.28 Qh 2.5 10 4 J 6. b 7. a 5 eff = 1 5.710 J 5 7.610 J = 1 0.75 = 0.25 Original content Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor. Holt Physics 1 Section Quizzes Name:______________________________Class:__________________ Date:__________________ Assessment Thermodynamics Section Quiz: The Second Law of Thermodynamics Write the letter of the correct answer in the space provided. _____ 1. Which of the following statements results from the second law of thermodynamics? a. Energy added to a system as heat is entirely converted to work. b. Energy added to a system as heat cannot be converted entirely to work. c. Energy added to a system as heat equals the increase in entropy. d. Energy added to a system as heat equals the heat given up to the surroundings. _____ 2. Which of the following situations would cause an ideal heat engine to do more work and still perform a cyclic process? a. increase the heat from the high-temperature reservoir b. decrease the heat from the high-temperature reservoir c. increase the heat removed to the low-temperature reservoir d. prevent any heat from being removed to the low-temperature reservoir _____ 3. A power plant transfers 82 percent of the energy produced from burning fuel to convert water to steam. Of the energy transferred as heat by the steam, 36 percent is converted doing work through a spinning turbine. Which equation best describes the overall efficiency of the heat-to-work conversion in the plant? a. eff > 82 percent b. eff = 82 percent c. eff = 36 percent d. eff < 36 percent _____ 4. If two-thirds of the energy added to an engine as heat is removed to the engine’s surroundings as heat, what is the efficiency of the engine? a. 1 b. 2/3 c. 1/2 d. 1/3 _____ 5. If the energy added to an engine as heat is 2.5 104 J and the net work done by the engine is 7.0 103 J what is the engine’s efficiency? a. 0.72 b. 0.39 c. 0.28 d. 0.22 Original content Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor. Holt Physics 2 Section Quizzes Name:______________________________Class:__________________ Date:__________________ Thermodynamics continued _____ 6. Work was done to freeze 1 kg of water. Which statement best describes what happened to this system? a. Its entropy increased. b. Its entropy remained constant. c. Its entropy decreased. d. Freezing occurred spontaneously. _____ 7. What must be true of the combined entropy of a system and its environment? a. It increases. b. It remains constant. c. It decreases. d. It decreases at first, then increases. _____ 8. If the entropy of a system decreases during a thermodynamic process, what must be true about the change in the entropy of the environment? a. It increases. b. It remains constant. c. It decreases. d. It decreases at first, then increases. 9. Use the second law of thermodynamics to explain why a heat engine cannot be 100 percent efficient. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 10. An engine takes in 7.6 105 J of energy as heat and gives up 5.7 105 J of energy as heat to the surroundings. What is the efficiency of the engine? Original content Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor. Holt Physics 3 Section Quizzes
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