A 100 kg skier waits at the top of a 300 m high hill to ski down the hill. The skier's gravitational potential energy is _Joules A) 30,000J
B) 294,000J
C) 3000J
D) 3061 J

Acar travels along a highway with a velocity of 24 m/s, west. the car exits the highway; and 4.0 s later, its instantaneous velocity is 16 m/s, 45° north of west. what is the magnitude of the average acceleration of the car during the four-second interval?

After a big snowfall, you take your favorite rocket-powered sled out to a wide field. the field is 195 m across, and you know that your sled accelerates at a rate of 3.65 m/s2 when the rocket is on. how much time will it take the sled to cross the field starting from rest, assuming the rocket is on the whole time?

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.