The specific heat capacity of aluminum is about twice that of iron. consider two blocks of equal mass, one made of aluminum and the other one made of iron, initially in thermal equilibrium.
heat is added to each block at the same constant rate until it reaches a temperature of 500 k. which of the following statements is true?
a. the iron takes less time than the aluminum to reach the final temperature.
b. the aluminum takes less time than the iron to reach the final temperature.
c. the two blocks take the same amount of time to reach the final temperature.

As part of an industrial process, air as an ideal gas at 10 bar, 400k expands at steady state through a valve to a pressure of 4 bar. the mass flow rate of air is 0.5 kg/s. the air then passes through a heat exchanger where it is cooled to a temperature of 295k with negligible change in pressure. the valve can be modeled as a throttling process, and kinetic and potential energy effects can be neglected. (a) for a control volume enclosing the valve and heat exchanger and enough of the local surroundings that the heat transfer occurs at the ambient temperature of 295 k, determine the rate of entropy production, in kw/k. (b) if the expansion valve were replaced by an adiabatic turbine operating isentropically, what would be the entropy production? compare the results of parts (a) and (b) and discuss.

Astudent pushes on a 20.0 kg box with a force of 50 n at an angle of 30° below the horizontal. the box accelerates at a rate of 0.5 m/s2 across a horizontal floor. what is the value of the normal force on the box? 200 n 243 n 156 n 225 n

Acar jack with a mechanical advantage of 6 needs to produce an output force of 600 n to raise a car. what input force is required? 6 n 100 n 600 n 3,600 n