A woman stands on a bathroom scale in a motionless elevator. When the elevator begins to move, the scale briefly reads only 0.75 of her regular weight. Calculate the acceleration of the elevator, and find the direction of acceleration.

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

Scout feels ill one day before school. her mother puts a thermometer in her mouth and the temperature begins to climb to 100°f. what is happening between the cooler thermometer and scout's body? a) scout's body is applying a force to the particles in the thermometer. b) kinetic energy is being transferred from her mouth to the thermometer. c) potential energy is being lost by the thermometer and gained by scout's body. d) the potential energy stored in foods is converted to mechanical energy to raise the mercury in the thermometer.

Which of the following changes will increase the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor? (there could be more than one correct choice.) a) increase the charge on the plates b) decrease the poten5al between the plates c) increase the potential between the plates d) introduce a dielectric material between the plates e) decrease the separation between the plates