Another group of students did an experiment to find out how the height at which a marble is dropped affects the size of impact crater formed. They filled a basin with flour and covered the surface with cocoa. They decided to change the marble size and the marble height each time. They measured the size of the craters. Conclusion: The marbles we dropped from higher heights made much bigger craters than the ones we dropped from lower heights. This is evidence that the farther the marbles falls, the bigger the crater is.

Is this a valid conclusion for these students to draw from the experiment they conducted? Why or why not?

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

Aprotein molecule in an electrophoresis gel has a negative charge. the exact charge depends on the ph of the solution, but 30 excess electrons is typical. what is the magnitude of the electric force on a protein with this charge in a 1600n/c electric field? write in two significant numbers, and also in newton

An air standard cycle with variable specific heats is executed in a closed system and is composed of the following four processes. 1-2 isentropic compression 100 kpa and 22°c to 600 kpa 2-3 v=constant heat addition to 1500 k 3-4 isentropic expansion to 100 kpa 4-1 p=constant heat rejection to initial state (a) show the cycle on p-v and t-s s (b) calculate the net work output per unit mass (409 kj/kg) (c) determine the thermal efficiency (47.9%)