Thermodynamics Quizzes & Trivia

This is one of the essential branches of physics. It explores the connection between vital aspects of our everyday lives. You’re about to take a quick trip back to your high-school days when you were studying this in physics class. We hope you still have your physics manual from that time because you’re going to need it this time.

These are a couple of sample questions: Thermodynamics studies the relationships between heat, temperature and? What was the name of the French physicist dubbed the “father of thermodynamics”? What is Zeroth’s law of thermodynamics? “Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location” is which law in thermodynamics? Find out all the right answers and prove to everyone you know everything about this.

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Thermodynamics

Questions on heat and thermodynamics for Principles of Engineering

Questions: 56 | Attempts: 1955 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the below is not a type of heat transfer?

Conduction

Radiation

Expansion

Convection

10. 2nd Law Themodynamics And Entropy

The quiz below is specifically set and designed to test your knowledge of thermodynamics and entropy. How well are you with heat energy and its conversion into mechanical energy? Take up the quiz below and find out.

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 648 | Last updated: Nov 17, 2020

Sample Question
In a heat engine, what is the relationship between Qh, Qc and W

W = Qh + Qc

W = Qc - Qh

W = Qh - Qc

Q + Qh, + Qc = 0

Thermodynamics For Principles Of Engineering Quiz

Questions: 56 | Attempts: 230 | Last updated: Apr 19, 2018

Sample Question
Which of the below is not a type of heat transfer?

Conduction

Radiation

Expansion

Convection

Thermodynamics II

This quiz item is intended for students under the Tutorial Class. Its objectives is to determine their basic understanding and knowledge on thermodynamic laws and processes.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 985 | Last updated: Feb 7, 2017

Sample Question
In a thermodynamic process in which the pressure is held constant, the heat transferred to the system is.

= zero

= ΔU + W

= W + PV

= ΔS

Thermodynamics Section 2 Quiz

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Questions: 10 | Attempts: 365 | Last updated: Jan 24, 2013

Sample Question
Thermodynamic reactions play important roles in all of the following except...

Car engines

Refrigerators

Hitting baseballs

Cooking food

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Physics: Trivia Questions On The Laws of Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of science which primarily focuses on the relations between heat and various other forms of energy, such as mechanical, chemical or electrical energy, and therefore the relationships between all forms...

Questions: 62 | Attempts: 1676 | Last updated: Dec 3, 2019

Sample Question
In an isothermal process, there is no change in

Pressure.

Temperature.

Volume.

Heat.

Quiz: Scientific Facts About Heating And Cooling

Quiz: Scientific Facts about Heating and Cooling

Hey there Science Geeks! Hope you all are well. So, here's the quiz on Heating and Cooling. Heating and Cooling are the two essential phenomena which are useful in all machines, industrial works, factories, environment,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1334 | Last updated: May 23, 2019

Sample Question
To save more energy you should turn the heat high in the winter.

True

False

12 Chemistry Unit-9 Thermodynamics II

12 CHEMISTRY Unit-9 THERMODYNAMICS II

Prepared by: G. KUPPUSWAMY, P.G.Asst., Pachaiyapp's HSS, Kanchipuram. ...

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 1189 | Last updated: Jan 1, 2014

Endothermic, Exothermic & Rates Of Reaction

Endothermic, Exothermic & Rates of Reaction

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 466 | Last updated: Jul 3, 2014

Sample Question
What does exothermic mean ?

Releasing heat

Absorbing heat

Producing heat

How Well Do You Know Your Thermal Analyis & Calorimetry Facts?

Welcome to our first Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis Quiz. We have designed this quiz just for some fun, and it contains some easy questions, some tough questions and of course some trick questions. There...

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 442 | Last updated: Jan 23, 2013

Sample Question
Who discovered the thermo electric effect that is applied in thermocouples, widely used in most of the existing thermoanalyzers?

Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931)

Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770 – 1831)

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)

Thermodynamics - Problems In First Law Of Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics - Problems in First law of Thermodynamics

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 283 | Last updated: Jul 5, 2019

Sample Question
A pump discharges a liquid into a drum at the rate of 0.032 m3/s. The drum, 1.50 m in diameter and 4.20 m in length, can hold 3000 kg of the liquid. Find the mass flow rate of the liquid handled by the pump.

12.945 kg/s

10.945 kg/s

129.45 kg/s

1294.5 kg/s

Thermodynamics Ultimate Trivia Quiz!

Questions: 15 | Attempts: 173 | Last updated: Feb 4, 2021

Sample Question
A Diesel engine has a compression ratio of 15. If the air drawn into the engine is at 300 K and 100 kPa, what will be the pressure during combustion?

4400 kPa

290 kPa

13,000 kPa

None of these answers are close (within 100 kPa).

Chapter 6 Chemical Thermodynamics

Chapter 6 Quiz 10 questions

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 78 | Last updated: Jan 11, 2013

Sample Question
What is the measure of the disorder or randomness in a system?

Enthalpy

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Entropy

State function

Thermodynamics Exam For 12th Grade! Quiz

Thermodynamics Exam for 12th Grade! Quiz

Questions: 30 | Attempts: 62 | Last updated: Feb 8, 2021

Sample Question
A well stoppered Thermo flask containing some ice cubes is an example of

Closed system

Open system

Isolated system

Non thermodynamic system

Law Of Thermodynamics Quiz Questions

law of thermodynamics quiz questions

There are four known laws of thermodynamics and the first one is the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The quiz below covers how well you understand the different...

Questions: 54 | Attempts: 62 | Last updated: Nov 5, 2018

Sample Question
Which term most precisely describes the cellular process of breaking down large molecules into smaller ones?

Anabolism

Dehydration

Metabolism

Catabolism

Catalysis