Baseball pitching machines such as shown in (figure 1) are used to fire baseballs toward a batter for hitting practice. in one kind of machine, the ball is fed between two wheels that are rapidly rotating in opposite directions; as the ball is pulled in between the wheels, it rapidly accelerates up to the speed of the wheels' rims, at which point it is ejected.

for a machine with 35-cm-diameter wheels, what rotational frequency (in rpm) do the wheels need to pitch a 90 mph fastball?
express your answer in revolutions per minute.

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.

We have a colorless transparent liquid. it looks like water. we seperated it into a solid and a liquid by evaporration and condention was this a chemichal or a physical seperation a. chemical seperation b. physical seperation

A2.00-m long piano wire with a mass per unit length of 12.0 g/m is under a tension of 8.00 kn. what is the frequency of the fundamental mode of vibration of this wire?