Explain why it is difficult to break a sheet of paper in tension, but easy to cut it with scissors.

Aplate of dimensions 3 m x 3 m is placed 0.37 mm apart from a fixed plate. the plate requires a force of 2n to move at speed of 45 cm/s. evaluate the viscosity of the fluid in between the plates

Avertical steel rod of length 2.0 m and diameter 25 mm is rigidly fixed at its upper end and has a flange at its lower, free, end. what will be the maximum stress produced in the rod when a load of 20 kn is applied, (a) gradually to the lower end, (b) suddenly to the lower end, (c) by a collar falling from a height of 50 mm on to the flange?

Consider a power plant with water as the working fluid that operates on an ideal rankine cycle. it has a net power output of 45mw. superheated steam enters the turbine at 7mpa and 500°c (h=3411.4 kj/kg; s=6.8 kj/kg k) and is cooled in the condenser at a pressure of 10 kpa by running cooling water from a lake through the tubes of the condenser at a rate of 2000 kg/s. (a) show the cycle on a t-s diagram (a right schematic is fine - you do not need to calculate the temperatures at each point); (b)-determine the work done by the turbine and the pump in kj/kg; (c)-the mass flow rate of water used by the power plant; (d)-the thermal efficiency of the cycle; (e)-the temperature rise of the cooling water. assume the cooling water is incompressible with cp 4.18 kj/kg°c.