Apoint charge q is placed at the center of a conducting spherical shell (inner radius a, outer radius b). what is the electric field at a point a distance r from q? consider the cases r < a, a < r < b, and r > b.

Aheat engine running backward is called a refrigerator if its purpose is to extract heat from a cold reservoir. the same engine running backward is called a heat pump if its purpose is to exhaust warm air into the hot reservoir. heat pumps are widely used for home heating. you can think of a heat pump as a refrigerator that is cooling the already cold outdoors and, with its exhaust heat qh, warming the indoors. perhaps this seems a little silly, but consider the following. electricity can be directly used to heat a home by passing an electric current through a heating coil. this is a direct, 100% conversion of work to heat. that is, 19.0 \rm kw of electric power (generated by doing work at the rate 19.0 kj/s at the power plant) produces heat energy inside the home at a rate of 19.0 kj/s. suppose that the neighbor's home has a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of 4.00, a realistic value. note: with a refrigerator, "what you get" is heat removed. but with a heat pump, "what you get" is heat delivered. so the coefficient of performance of a heat pump is k=qh/win. an average price for electricity is about 40 mj per dollar. a furnace or heat pump will run typically 200 hours per month during the winter. what does one month's heating cost in the home with a 16.0 kw electric heater? what does one month's heating cost in the home of a neighbor who uses a heat pump to provide the same amount of heating?

One form of energy can be another type of energy. a. created to form b. transformed into c. destroyed and then created to form

Awind turbine is rotating counterclockwise at 0.5 rev/s and slows to a stop in 10 s. its blades are 20 m in length. (a) what is the angular acceleration of the turbine? (b) what is the centripetal acceleration of the tip of the blades at t=0s? (c) what is the magnitude and direction of the total linear acceleration of the tip of the blades at t=0s?