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A company produces two kinds of septic tanks: type A and type B. Each type B tank takes twice as long to produce as a type A tank. If it only produced type A tanks, the company has the time to produ
When a 60 kg boy floats in the pool 93% of his body is submerged. How much force must he exert to stay submerged on the bottom of the pool to remain fully submerged
An electron is released from rest at a perpendicular distance of 9.9 cm from a line of charge on a very long nonconducting rod. That charge is uniformly distributed, with 9.0 ?C per meter. What is t
To float a 160 pound man using helium balloons (assume 0.52 cubic feet per inflated balloon). How many balloons would it take. Assume density of air is 1.29 kg/cubic meter and the density of helium
A cube has side dimensions of 18.00 in. It is made of steel having a specific weight of 491 pcf. What force is required to hold it in equilibrium under mercury
A field party is capable of making taping observations with a standard deviation of +,-0.003m per 30m taped length. What standard deviation would be expected in a distance of 120m taped by this par
An object is submerged in a water tank and tethered by a line to the bottom of the tank. If the object has a density of 45 kg/cubic meter and a volume of 2.5 cubic meters, what is the tension in the
An alloy has a yield strength of 41 ksi, a tensile strength of 57 ksi, and an elastic modulus of 16 X 10^6 psi. A cylindrical specimen of this alloy 0.5 in in diameter and 10 in long is stressed in
A 5 km2 lake does not have a defined input but receives runoff from its watershed (25 km2). The area receives 60 cm/yr in precipitation. Evaporation from the lake surface is 10 cm/yr with watershed
Consider a state with a total water withdrawal of 4.5 bgd in 2000. This was distributed as follows: municipal use 1.0 bgd, industrial use 1.5 bgd, and steam electric cooling 2.0 bgd. Assume a 2000 P
Structural health monitoring using Guided Wave propagation for Detection and Evaluation of Flaws in Pipes.
a newly designed car has a 9.2 ft wheelbase, is rear wheel drive, and has a center of gravity 18 inches above the the road and 4.3 ft behind the front axle. the car weighs 2450 lb, the mechanical ef
how far back from the front axle would the center of gravity have to be to ensure that the maximum tractive effort developed for front and rear- wheel drive options is equal
if the resultant of the 1000 lb vertical force and the tensile force T in the cable is to be in the direction of the boom OB, what must be the magnitude of T
The crane hoists a uniformly distributed load C. the two identical motors at A an power through gearboxes operating at maximum output speed of 100 rpm.the load is lifted by winding cable onto spindl
The siphon crown is 1.2m above the water surface elevation of the reservoir and a length 10m away from the siphon entrance. If the siphon diameter is 30 cm, if the friction factor is .02, and the he
A lake has a water level which is used to determine if watering restrictions need to be implemented for the neighboring city. Water levels are measured on a weekly basis, and restrictions are placed
When a pesticide comes into contact with skin, a certain percentage of it is absorbed. The percentage of the pesticide that will be absorbed during a given tie period can be modeled with a lognormal
A 25-mm diamenter shaft is pulled through a cylindrical bearing. The lubricant that fills the 0.3-mm gap between the shaft and bearing is an oil having a kinematic velocity of 8.0x10^-4 m^2/s and a
A turbine expands to a pressure of 10 kPa and a quality of 0.94. Determine the temperature T and the specific volume at this state.
Repeat LEM(Limit Equilibrium Method) analysis in clay (undrained) using a circular failure surface, with the center of the circle a distance h above the edge of the footing. What ratio of h/B gives
Water enters the lock of a ship canal through 180 ports, each port having a 2 ft by 2 ft cross section. The lock is 900 ft long and 105 ft wide. The lock is designed so that the water surface in it
The flow is assumed to be laminar and the film thickness, H, constant. Using a coordinate system located on the plate at the surface of the pool, complete the following: a. Dram and sketch the syste
A 2.0m-wide strip at a depth of 1 m in a stiff clay carries a wall load of 425 kN/m. The saturated unit weight of the caly is 20kN/m^3. TRiaixal tests give the following results: c'=10 kPa, phi'=28
The moment of inertia of the footing about its diameter is piB^4/64. What would be the maximum eccentricity such that the entire soil beneath the footing is in compression FOr this value of eccentri