Quiz — Fundamental Concepts

Question 1

Only pressure-volume work is considered. Which wall properties ensure that the system is isolated?

Accepted Answer

Rigid, adiabatic, and impermeable.

Question 2

A diathermanous wall permits heat to pass through it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

An adiabatic wall permits heat to pass through it.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

A system is closed if its walls are impermeable to matter, while it may still exchange heat and work with its surroundings.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Which of these quantities is intensive?

Accepted Answer

Pressure P

Question 6

An isochoric process takes place:

Accepted Answer

At constant volume

Question 7

A thermodynamic system at equilibrium is necessarily homogeneous (with the same intensive quantities at every point).

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

A metal bar whose two ends are maintained at different temperatures eventually reaches a regime in which the temperature profile no longer depends on time. This regime is a state of thermodynamic equilibrium.

Accepted Answer

False