A train locomotive is pulling two cars of the same mass behind it. Determine the ratio of the tension in the coupling (think of it as a cord) between the locomotive and the first car (FT1) to that between the first car and the second car (FT2), for any nonzero acceleration of the train

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.

What is the electric force acting between two charges of -0.0045 c and -0.0025 c that are 0.0060 m apart? use fe=kq1q2/r^2 and k = 9.00 x 10^9 n*m^2/c^2 a. 1.7 x 10^7 n b. -1.7 x 10^7 n c. -2.8 x 10^9 n d. 2.8 x 10^9 n

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