A baker has two identical cakes except that one cake is hot, and the other cake is room temperature. He places both cakes on an ice-cold plate. What happens? (Mark the one best answer.)
Both cakes transfer energy to the plate.
The plate transfers energy to the room temperature cake.
Neither cake transfers energy to the plate
Only the hot cake transfers energy to the plate.

The small bags of silica gel you often see in a new shoe box are placed there to control humidity. despite its name, silica gel is a solid. it is a chemically inert, highly porous, amorphous form of sio2. because water vapor readily adsorbs onto the surface of silica gel, it acts as a desiccant. despite not knowing mechanistic details of the adsorption of water onto silica gel, from the information provided you should be able to make an educated guess about the thermodynamic characteristics of the process. predict the signs for δg, δh, and δs for the adsorption of water.