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Water exits the system as a 4.5MPa saturated vapor (quality is 100%). Find the required mass flow rate of the compressed liquid.
A single degree of freedom translational vibrating system has a concentrated mass weighing 77.2 lbs , a spring constant of 20 lb/in, and a viscous damping coefficient of 2 lb sec/ in.
Determine the friction force acting on the piston and the amount of heat transfer when the temperature inside the cylinder drops to 30 degrees C.
How do we use principles of superposition to define the load-intensity of the distributed load for the entire beam , especially for a beam with linearly-increasing load intensity situation?
A tugboat tows a ship at a constant velocity. The tow harness consists of a single tow cable attached to the tugboat at point A that splits at point B and attaches to the ship at points C and D.
A man attached to a rope jumps from a bridge. The natural length of the rope is L, the mass of the man is m, the mass of the rope is negligibly small and its spring constant is k.
Calculate factors of safety and assess the stability of unsupported excavation using only conventional Kirsch equation for the engineering data.
A four foot diameter reel of wire pays out 250 feet of conductor wire in two minutes. What is the average angular velocity of the reel in rpm. Provide step by step explanations.
Determine the entropy production rate, in kJ/min. K for the heat engine itself the low temperature heat transfer process, and the high temperature heat transfer process then which process has the la
A diagnostic test is designed to detect a cancer precursor enzyme that exists in 1 of every 1000 people. What is the percent chance that a person identified as having the enzyme actually does have the
The wheel on a press is 25 inches in circumference, and there are 5 threads to the inch. How much resistance on the book will a 40 lb effort force on the wheel produce?
A newly developed diagnostic test indicates that 80% of students predicted to score 100% on an exam actually do. The diagnostic test has an accuracyof 90%.
An internal crack has been detected with ultrasonics in the shell of a large cylindrical steel pressure vessel. The stresses in the region of the crack are: (longitudinal tensile stress of 60,000 ps
A jack having a pitch of 1/2 inch has a lever, the outer end of which passes through a circle 9 feet in circumference. What force can be raised by an effort of 20 pounds?
The performance of a device is defined as the ratio of the desired output to the required input, and this definition can be extended to nontechnical fields.
A fine copper wire(0.07-cm diameter) is initially heated to 175C. The wire is suddenly exposed to an environment at 40C with a heat-transfer coefficient of 60W/(m^2*C).
Water vapor enters a compressor at 50 kPa and 150 C, and leaves at 400 kPa with the same specific entropy as at the inlet. What is the temperature of the water at the compressor exit.
Based on inernal energy considerations, what dislocation density in Cu is needed to make the crystalline form of Cu unstable with respect to the liquid form? What would be dislocation spacing be at
What is the approximate ductility (%El) of a brass alloy that has a yield strength of 275MPa? What is its Tensile strength?
A single crystal of aluminum is oriented for a tensile test such that its slip plane normal makes an angle of 30o with the tensile axis. Three possible slip directions make angles of 58.4o, 72o, and
Consider a single crystal cylindrical specimen of iron oriented such that a tensile load is applied along a [010] direction. The diameter of the specimen is 0.5 cm.
In a PEM fuel cell, there are catalyst particles dispersed in the catalyst layer (CL) to increase the electrochemically active area. You model this as jo=jo sigma, where sigma is the catalyst layer
Consider a large vessel divided into two chambers by a dividing nwall, such as that described in lecture on 23 Feb. The vessel and its contents are at 298 K and the dividing wall is 0.001 m thick ru
The yield stress of a tension specimen machined from a 0.5 m wide by 0.6 cm thick copper sheet is 145 MPa. The sheet is rolled further in the plane of the sheet with an applied tensile force of 0.22