Two identical appliances are connected to the same household circuit and the circuit breaker trips. Which of the following is true (there may be more than one correct answer) (2 points): (A) If the breaker is reset and only one appliance is connected, the breaker will not trip. (B) Connecting only one appliance on this circuit might not trip the breaker again. (C) Each appliance had too low a resistance to work with a normal 120-V circuit breaker. (D) The appliances together had a total resistance that was too low to work with a normal 120-V circuit breaker.

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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.

In a stagnant pool of water, a crayfish may spend much of its time lying with one side of its carapace near the surface of the water. in this position, it will move the walking legs on that side in a rhythmic back-and-forth motion. explain the likely function of this behavior.