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A very small country has just gained independence in the year 2000, at which time its population was 1,000. The new country has a birth rate of 0.02 yr-1, death rate of 0.004 yr-1, immigration rate
A bicyclist is riding a bicycle on a flat road. The combined mass of the bicyclist and bicycle is = 110kg, the radius of each wheel is = 32.5cm, and the coefficient of rolling resistance between the
A coal with 6% ash and a heating value of 13,000 Btu/lb is burned in a new power plant. Assume that 30% of the ask falls out as bottom ash in the furnace. Calculate the efficiency of ESP required to
Water flows into and out of a 5 liter tank at a rate of 1 L/min. Within the tank, the mineral apatite is dissolving at a rate of 3x10^-10 moles of Si per m^2 per sec. If the tank contains 10g of the
Indoor air quality is an under appreciated health hazardous. The air quality in a building can be modeled as a CSTR. Suppose that the carpet in a new office building releases formaldehyde at a rate
Write the mass balance equation for a completely mixed lake with an impulse input of mass,M, added at time t=0. Assume the lake is of constant volume, V, with continuous outflow, Q, and a conservati
The guy wires AB and AC are attached to the top of the transmission tower. The tension in cable AB is 8.6 kN. Determine the required tension T in cable AC such that the net effect of the two cables
A stone A is dropped from rest down a well, and in 1 second another stone B is dropped from rest. Determine the distance between the stones another second later.
A toothpaste factory situated on a large river disposes of a waste water containing villiamite (NaF) to the river on a continuous basis. The minimum flow in the river is 210 m3/s, and the discharge
A truck driver used sand to soak up a 1 g spill of lindane (C6H6Cl6). He placed the contaminated soil in an open drum which then filled with 150 L of water during a rainstorm. You test the water and
A u-tube manometer is used to measure the pressure of a vessel under vacuum. Assume the manometer is open to atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa) and the density of the fluid in the manometer is 12 g/
A 6.6 mA current is flowing through a 47 kilo-Ohm, 5% tolerance, 2-watt resistor. If the resistor values are uniformly distributed, how many resistors out of a package of 100 would you expect to bur
You have two wires connected end to end. Wire 1 is copper and wire 2 is made using a special carbon conductor. Wire 1 has a resistance of 0.215 ohms/ft and is 500 ft long. Wire 2 has a resistance of
A Bonda portable generator is powering a small travelling fridge (120V) in your RV and consumes 125 watts. The efficiency of the generator's gas motor is 23% and the electrical portion (power head)
A reservoir at elevation 700 ft will supply a second reservoir at elevation 460 ft. The reservoirs are connected by 1300 ft of 24-in cast-iron pipe and 2000 ft of 20-in cast iron pipe in series. Wha
Water is pumped 9 mi from a reservoir at elevation 100 ft to a second reservoir at elevation 210 ft. The pipeline connecting the reservoirs has a 54-in diameter. It is concrete and has an absolute r
Your neighbor has the Bonda generator in the next problem and they have graciously extended a 100 foot extension cord to your home, which has a resistance of 0.0075 ohms per foot of wire (per lead).
Ball A is thrown vertically upward from the top of a 20-{\rm m}-high-building with an initial velocity of 3m/s . At the same instant another ball B is thrown upward from the ground with an initial v
total energy (E) of a projectile is the sum of its kinetic and potential energy: E= 1/2 mV^2 +mgz where m is mass of projectile, V is speed, g is gravitational constant and z is height. 5.0 kg objec
given: Vf=Vi + a t and Sf=Si + Vi t + 1/2 a t a= 27 ft/sec^2 accelerates from 10 mph to 93 mph in 4.5 seconds designers decided to modify the rise to become the tallest roller coaster in the world,
A person on the moon wishes to determine the mass of a rock. He has a spring scale calibrated to read pounds mass at a location where the acceleration of gravity is 32.186 ft/s 2 . The rock gives a
A "slap shot" in the game of hockey can cause an increase in the velocity of a 5 oz puck from 2 ft/sec to 110 ft/sec. What would be the corresponding increase in the kinetic energy (ft-lb) of the pu
If the pipe lengths ar L1 = 3000ft, L2 = 2200, and L3 = 1600 ft the respective pipe diameters are 15,10, and 18in, and the surface water elevations of two of the three reservoirs are A = 125ft and B
If the motorist wishes to pass the light just as it turns green without having to stop, what is the required uniform deceleration of the car and what is the speed of the car as it passes the light
Given: acceration = -k*sqrt(v) and k is a cosntant when x=0, v=81 m/s, t=0 when x=18 m, v=436 m/s determine: a) velocity of particle when x=20 m b) the time required for the particle to come to rest