Which of the following would not be a reason to create a controlled-fusion reactor? a. to confine a fission reaction b. to start and control a fusion reaction c. to utilize resources already available to us d. to eliminate radioactive waste materials

Total solidification times of three casting geometries are to be compared: a sphere, a cylinder, in which the length-to-diameter ration - 1.0, and a cube. volume = 1000 cm^3 for all three shhapes, and the same casting alloy is used. a) determine the solidification times of each geometry b) based on the results of part (a), which geometric element would make the best riser? c) if the mold constant = 3.5 min/cm^2 in chvorinov's rule, compute the total solidification time for each casting.

Apair of 10μf capacitors in a high-power laser are charged to 1.7 kv. a. what charge is stored in each capacitor? b. how much energy is stored in each capacitor?

Two resistors r1 and r2 may be connected either in series or parallel across an ideal battery with emf ε. we desire the rate of energy dissipation of the parallel combination to be 8.75 times that of the series combination. if r1 = 105 ω, what are the (a) smaller and (b) larger of the two values of r2 that result in that dissipation rate?