You and your friends are at the lake on a particularly sunny day. Use specific heat capacity to explain why the sand on the shores of the lake feels so much hotter than the water in the lake even though the same solar energy is being absorbed by both materials.

Scientists and engineers design new technologies to solve problems. often, a new technological design will contain a flaw. which of the following is true about such a flaw? a. it should be studied so that the design can be fixed or a new design can be proposed. b. it means that the problem being investigated cannot be solved. c. it means that the people who proposed the design should not be scientists or engineers. d. it makes the technological design useless.