A 300-g glass thermometer initially at 25°C is put into 200 cm3 of hot water at 95°C. Find the final temperature (in °C) of the thermometer, assuming no heat flows to the surroundings. (The specific heat of glass is 0.2 cal/g×°C.)

a. 36
b. 79
c. 68
d. 89
e. 52

Look at the potential energy diagram for a chemical reaction. which statement correctly describes the energy changes that occur in the forward reaction?

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.

The energy released by a nuclear fusion reaction is produced when