You are about to ride a roller-coaster at Disney. The ride is a single-person ride with a drop of 25.0 meters and a plunger/piston system that makes the ride stop. There is a 250 kg water cylinder attached to the plunger/piston. The cart weighs about 75.0 kg and begins at the top of the circuit at a standstill. To get the total mass of the cart during the ride, you must add your weight (55KG) to the cart's overall weight. According to analysis, friction in the wheels and axles creates 2750 J of combined thermal and sound energy when the cart moves along the track. The bottom of the device's plunger/piston is designed to stop the cart at a max acceleration of 5.00 g's (49.0 m/s2). Question: Question #5: The plunger/piston compresses the water inside the cylinder, which is then turned into thermal energy within the water. Determine the temperature change of the water in the cylinder as it pulls the cart to a stop if the specific heat capacity of water is 4184 J/kg°C (assuming 100 percent energy transfer efficiency).
You are about to ride a roller-coaster at Disney. The ride is a single-person ride with a drop of 25.0 meters and a plunger/piston system that makes the ride stop. There is a 250 kg water cylinder attached to the plunger/piston. The cart weighs about 75.0 kg and begins at the top of the circuit at a standstill. To get the total mass of the cart during the ride, you must add your weight (55KG) to the cart's overall weight. According to analysis, friction in the wheels and axles creates 2750 J of combined thermal and sound energy when the cart moves along the track. The bottom of the device's plunger/piston is designed to stop the cart at a max acceleration of 5.00 g's (49.0 m/s2).
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Question #5: The plunger/piston compresses the water inside the cylinder, which is then
turned into thermal energy within the water. Determine the temperature change of the water
in the cylinder as it pulls the cart to a stop if the specific heat capacity of water is 4184
J/kg°C (assuming 100 percent energy transfer efficiency).
Calculate the temperature change of the water inside the cylinder
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