a hot reservoir at 576k transfers 2100 j of heat irreversibly to a cold reservoir at 350 k. Find change in entropy of the universe.
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An airplane traveling at half the speed of sound emits a sound of frequency 5.29 kHz.
(a) At what frequency does a stationary listener hear the sound as the plane approaches? kHz
(b) At what frequency does a stationary listener hear the sound after the plane passes? kHz
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The Navajo Generating Station was a 2250 MW plant when operating at full power.
a) Assuming the plant operates at 38% efficiency and that coal has a heat content of
10,500 BTU/lb, calculate how many tons of coal are used per year if the plant
operates at full capacity (assume 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week) .
b) Calculate the area needed to replace the power generated by NGS with Si
photocells operating at 21% efficiency assuming an average solar insolation of 6
kWhr/m2. show all work
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Bycicles convert force into torque (pedal to axis), torque into
force (axis to chain using the front gear), force into a torque
(chain to back wheel using back gear), and finally, torque into
force (wheel on road), and that accelerates the bike. If you make
the front gear smaller, is it easier or harder to pedal (explain in
terms of forces/torques)? If you make the back gear smaller, is it
easier or harder to pedal?
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The figure shows two parallel nonconducting rings with their central axes along a common line. Ring 1 has uniform charge q1 and radius R; ring 2 has uniform charge q2 and the same radius R. The rings are separated by a distance 3.00R. The ratio of the electric field magnitudes of Ring 1 and Ring 2 at point P on the common line is 1.59. What is the ratio of charge magnitudes q1/q2?
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A bumper car with mass m1 = 115 kg is moving to the right with a velocity of v1 = 4.8 m/s. A second bumper car with mass m2 = 95 kg is moving to the left with a velocity of v2 = -3.8 m/s. The two cars have an elastic collision. Assume the surface is frictionless.
1. What is the velocity of the center of mass of the system?
2. What is the initial velocity of car 1 in the center-of-mass reference frame?
3. What is the final velocity of car 1 in the center-of-mass reference frame?
4. What is the final velocity of car 1 in the ground (original) reference frame?
5. What is the final velocity of car 2 in the ground (original) reference frame?
6. In a new (inelastic) collision, the same two bumper cars with the same initial velocities now latch together as they collide.
What is the final speed of the two bumper cars after the collision?
ANSWER THIS QUESTION IN PARTICULAR PLEASE. DO NOT PROVIDE A GENERALIZED SOLUTION.
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An unpolarized beam of light is incident on a pair of polarizing filters. The first filter set to polarize in the vertical direction and the second filter is set to polarize 38° from vertical. What is the intensity of the light beam after the second filter relative to the original beam?
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A 679-kg elevator starts from rest and moves upward for 3.30 s with constant acceleration until it reaches its cruising speed, 1.63 m/s. (a) What is the average power of the elevator motor during this period? (b) How does this amount of power compare with its power during an upright trip with constant speed?
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Determine the number of combined states, in the form of total |s m s >, for the combination of four spin ½ particles.
Do NOT determine the coefficients in the composite states.
Hint: make two combinations of spin - ½ particles, one for spins 1 and 2, and one for spins 3 and 4, and combine those
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A small conducting spherical shell with inner radius a and outer radius b is concentric with a larger conducting spherical shell with inner radius c and outer radius d. The inner shell has a total charge of -2q and the outer shell has a total charge of +4q.
Select True or False for the following statements.
The total charge on the inner surface of the small shell is
zero.
True False The total charge on the inner surface of the
large shell is zero.
True False The electric field in the region
r < a is zero.
True False The electric field in the region
r > d is zero.
True False The total charge on the outer surface of the
large shell is +2q.
True False The electric field in the region
c < r < d
is zero.
True False The total charge on the outer surface of the
small shell is -6q.
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Smarty McGuy intends to charge the parallel plate capacitor inside his intergalactic Ford Pinto (built by Doc Dre) with a lightning strike of 26x103 amps. Doc Dre's capacitor specifications are listed below:
The distance between the capacitor plates is 5 microns
The surface area of the capacitor plates is 3,844 cm2
There is a dielectric between the capacitor plates
What is the minimum dielectric constant of the material between the plates needed to store all the charge from the lightning assuming that the lightning strike lasts for 6x10-6 seconds and provides 1.21 Gigawatts of power? Assume the dielectric doesn't reach its breakdown voltage.
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(a) Name 4 major components of a Gamma camera. Briefly explain
the function of each component.
Also, describe the advantages and disadvantages of using “thin”
scintillating crystal.
(b) In an experiment with 51.80 MBq 99mTc, 5.88×105 counts are measured in 2 minutes. According to the manufacturer the sensitivity is 202 cnts/(min⋅μCi) (American manufacturers still use Ci instead of Bq, 1μCi = 37 kBq). What is the difference between the sensitivity of the measurement and the factory specification?
(c) in a NM scan, we use a specific contrast agent with half-life
of 2h and emitted gamma radiation with wavelength of the 8.79x0-12
m. We image the patient immediately after the injection and the
scan takes 20 minutes. Injecting 1 mCi, the acquired NM images have
signal-to-noise ratio of 40. Calculate the SNR if we inject the
patient with 3 mCi and scan him for 60 minutes.
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Explain two reasons behind the commercial failure of Low Earth Orbit satellite mobile communications companies (such as Iridium).
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An object with total mass mtotal = 14.8 kg is sitting at rest when it explodes into three pieces. One piece with mass m1 = 4.8 kg moves up and to the left at an angle of θ1 = 22° above the –x axis with a speed of v1 = 27.6 m/s. A second piece with mass m2 = 5.1 kg moves down and to the right an angle of θ2 = 27° to the right of the -y axis at a speed of v2 = 20.5 m/s.
What is the x-component of the velocity of the third piece?
What is the y-component of the velocity of the third piece?
What is the magnitude of the velocity of the center of mass of the pieces after the collision?
Calculate the increase in kinetic energy of the pieces during the explosion?
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A gas of nitrogen molecules is at a temperature of 1000K. In this case molecule has 3 translational, 2 rotational, and 2 vibrational degrees of freedom per molecule, i.e. a total of 7.
1.9. [1pt] Assuming the cycle operates as an engine, calculate the engine efficiency.
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1.10. [1pt] If you are to build the most efficient engine using the highest and the lowest temperatures available from #9 how would the cycle look like on a PV-diagram [you need to indicate both cycles]
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1.11 [1pt] What is the efficiency of the most efficient cycle in 1.10?
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