Steam at 550 lbf/in.2, 800°F enters a turbine operating at steady state and exits at 1 lbf/in.2 The turbine produces 600 hp. For the turbine, heat transfer is negligible as are kinetic and potential energy effects. (a) Determine the quality of the steam at the turbine exit, the mass flow rate, in lb/s, and the entropy production rate, in Btu/s. oR, if the turbine operates without internal irreversibilities.
(b) Plot the mass flow rate, in lb/s, and the entropy production rate, in Btu/s. oR, for exit qualities ranging from the value calculated in part (a) to 1.

Find the vertex(use the completing the square method), findthe x- and y-intercepts, and sketch the graph offunction. y = 2x2 + 4x - 1

Which of the following explains why it took so long for the public to accept the negative health effects of smoking? a)people were waiting for counter reasons, and those were presented. b)scientists had not completely finalized their results, which took 30 years. c)cigarettes were cheaply available and media channels were very inefficient. d)cigarette manufacturers were trying hard to bring an alternative into the market

Comedians like to joke that the reason we haven’t been visited by intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe is that aliens have been monitoring earth’s broadcasts of intellectually embarrassing tv programs, like gilligan’s island, fear factor, the jersey shore, and the jerry springer showand so consider us far too primitive to merit a visit. let’s check the assertion that aliens could have been receiving them. tv programs are broadcast at a frequency of about 100mhz with about 100kw of total power in 30frames per second, which emanatesroughly uniformly in all directions. assume that interstellar space transmits these broadcasts without attenuation. no matter how smart they are, aliens would require at least one photon per frame to interpret our signals. findthe number of photons per unit time per unit area reaching a receiver on a possible planet in the nearest star system, which is about 4 light-years away (a light-year is the distance light travels in a year). if aliens aimed a receiver or detector directly at earth, how big (in diameter) would it have to be to receive a photon per frame