A student is performing an experiment comparing sound
and light waves. The student gathers the following data.
What conclusion does the student most likely make based
on this data?
Medium
Speed of Sound
Temperature
(°C)
Ice
Speed of
Sound (m/s)
3200 m/s
1500 m/s
346 m/s
Water
Steam
25
100
O Light waves always travel the same speed; however, the
speed of sound is determined by the medium that it
travels through
O All sound waves always have the same energy, so the
temperature of the medium does not affect wave speed.
O Light needs to vibrate particles, so it travels fastest in
tightly packed solids, while sound does not need a
medium, so it travels fastest in a gas.
O Tightly packed particles in solids slow down the light
waves, however, sound waves make particles bounce
into each other, so they travel faster in solids.
Medium
Speed of Light
Index of
Refraction
1.00
1.33
1.57
Air
Speed of Light
(m/s)
2.99 x 108
2.26 x 108
1.91 x 108
Water
Glass

In a steady-flow steam power plant system, two adiabatic high-pressure and low-pressure turbines ane used to generate power. superheated steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 8 mpa and 550°c. the steam expands in the high-pressure turbine to a saturated vapor at 3 mpa. in order to increase the powe generation of the power plant, another steam turbine working in a lower pressure ranges is deployed. the outlet vapor from the first turbine is heated up at a boiler to the temperature of 500 c at the constant pressure of first turbine's outlet (3 mpa). then, the vapor enters the second turbine and produces extra work. the exit conditions of the second turbine are 5o kpa and 90 percent quality. if the total power output of the power plant is 25 mw, determine a) the mass flow rate of the water (kg/s). b) heat transfer rate in the boiler (mw). (30 points) 3 mpa 00 c 8 mpa s0 c high pres turbine low pres boiler turbine 50 kpa 3 mpa 09 saturated vapor t heat engine, shown in the figure, operates between high temperature and low temperature of through a heat 4. a carnot tn and tu respectively. this heat engine receives energy from a heat reservoir at t exchanger where the heat transferred is proportional to the temperature difference as ? = k (z,-7, ). it rejects heat at a given low temperature tl. to design the heat engine for maximum work output, find the high temperature, th, as a function of tes and t. (15 points) qe

A30 kg weight lies on top of a massless piston of area a = 0.01 m2 the exterior air is at a (constant) p =1 atm and t = 27 c. the interior gas is 0.4 moles of (ideal) n2 and it has initial temperature 27.00 degrees c. 1. what is the initial pressure in the interior? a. 29.4 kpa b. 130.7 kpa c. 101.3 kpa the next three questions concern what happens when an amount of heat q is slowly added to the interior, raising the piston by 1 mm and raising the interior temperature to 27.40 c

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