A pendulum is in a spacecraft to measure acceleration during lift off. Before the launch, its period
is 6.5 X 10-3 s. At a point during lift off, its period is 3.1
X 10-3 s. What is the acceleration at this point?

Air enters a gas turbine with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion at 100 kpa and 17°c. this system uses a regenerator as well as reheating and intercooling – the intercooler returns the air to the inlet temperature. the pressure ratio across each compressor is 4 ; 300 kj/kg of heat are added to the air in each combustion chamber; and the regenerator operates perfectly while increasing the temperature of the cold air by 20°c. determine the system’s thermal efficiency. assume isentropic operations for all compressor and the turbine stages and use constant specific heats at room temperature. (0.378)