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Due to a faulty door contact the small light bulb (25 W) inside a refrigerator is kept on and limited insulation lets 50 W of energy from the outside seep
Dry air is heated from 25°C to 4000 K in a 100-kPa constant-pressure process. List the possible reactions that may take place and determine the equilibrium
Does the cyclic integral of work have to be zero (i.e., does a system have to produce as much work as it consumes to complete a cycle)? Explain.
During the isothermal heat addition process of a Carnot cycle, 900 kJ of heat is added to the working fluid from a source at 400°C. Determine
During some actual expansion and compression processes in piston-cylinder devices, the gases have been observed to satisfy the relationship
During an expansion process, the pressure of a gas changes from 15 to 100 psia according to the relation P = aV + b, where a = 5 psia/ft3 and b is a constant.
During a regeneration process, some steam is extracted from the turbine and is used to heat the liquid water leaving the pump.
During a picnic on a hot summer day, all the cold drinks disappeared quickly, and the only available drinks were those at the ambient temperature of 75°F.
Electric power is to be generated in a hydroelectric power plant that receives water at a rate of 70 m3/s from an elevation of 65 m using a turbine-generator
Also determine the Mach number of an aircraft moving in air at a velocity of 280 m/s for both cases.
Develop an expression for the variation in temperature with pressure in a constant entropy process, (T/P)s, that only includes the properties P-v-T
Determine the specific volume of superheated water vapor at 10 MPa and 400°C, using
Does the amount of heat absorbed as 1 kg of saturated liquid water boils at 100°C have to be equal to the amount of heat released as 1 kg of saturated
Differences in surface water and deep water temperature can be utilized for power generation. It is proposed to construct a cyclic heat engine that will operate
Determine the total force, in kN, on the bottom of a 100 A 50 m swimming pool. The depth of the pool varies linearly along its length from 1 m to 4m
Determine the phase of the substance at the given state
Determine the mass of methane gas stored in a 2 m3 tank at -30°C, 3 MPa. Estimate the percent error in the mass determination if the ideal gas model is used
Determine the mass of an ethane gas stored in a 25 ft3 tank at 250 F, 440 lbf/in.2 using the compressibility chart estimate the error (%) if the ideal gas model
Air is compressed in a piston-cylinder device from 100 kPa and 17°C to 800 kPa in a reversible, adiabatic process. Determine the final temperature and the work
Determine the power required for a 2000-kg car to climb a 100-m-long uphill road with a slope of 30° (from horizontal) in 10 s
Derive an energy balance relation for a reacting closed system undergoing a quasi-equilibrium constant pressure expansion or compression process
Determine the specific volume of refrigerant-134a vapor at 0.9 MPa and 70°C based on
Determine the specific volume of nitrogen gas at 10 MPa and 150 K based on
Determine the mole fraction of dry air at the surface of a lake whose temperature is 18°C. The air at the lake surface is saturated, and the atmospheric
Determine the missing property among P, T, s, x for the following states: