Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Technology Update (No access codes included)
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781305116399
Author: Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
Publisher: Cengage Learning
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Textbook Question
Chapter 20, Problem 20.11CQ
Pioneers stored fruits and vegetables in underground cellars. In winter, why did the pioneers place an open barrel of water alongside their produce?
Expert Solution & Answer
Trending nowThis is a popular solution!
Students have asked these similar questions
When you use a hand pump to inflate the tires of your bicycle, the pump gets warm after a while. Why? What happens to the temperature of the air in the pump as you compress it? Why does this happen? When you raise the pump handle to draw outside air into the pump, what happens to the temperature of the air taken in? Again, why does this happen?
In 1883, the volcano on Krakatau Island in the Pacific erupted violently in the largest explosion in Earth’s recorded history, destroying much of the island in the process. Global temperature measurements indicate that this explosion reduced the average temperature of Earth by about 1 degree Celsius during the next two decades. Why?
Note: The answer to this question is somehow be connected to the law of conservation of energy. As much as possible, connect the answer to it.
You just took a jar out of the fridge but you are unable to open it. You then decide to leave run hot water over the lid to open it. Why does it work?
Chapter 20 Solutions
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Technology Update (No access codes included)
Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.1QQCh. 20 - Suppose the same process of adding energy to the...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.3QQCh. 20 - Characterize the paths in Figure 19.12 as...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.5QQCh. 20 - An ideal gas is compressed to half its initial...Ch. 20 - A poker is a stiff, nonflammable rod used to push...Ch. 20 - Assume you are measuring the specific heat of a...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.4OQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.5OQ
Ch. 20 - Ethyl alcohol has about one-half the specific heat...Ch. 20 - The specific heat of substance A is greater than...Ch. 20 - Beryllium has roughly one-half the specific heat...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.9OQCh. 20 - A 100-g piece of copper, initially at 95.0C, is...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.11OQCh. 20 - If a gas is compressed isothermally, which of the...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.13OQCh. 20 - If a gas undergoes an isobaric process, which of...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.15OQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.1CQCh. 20 - You need to pick up a very hot cooking pot in your...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.3CQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.4CQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.5CQCh. 20 - In 1801, Humphry Davy rubbed together pieces of...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.7CQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.8CQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.9CQCh. 20 - When camping in a canyon on a still night, a...Ch. 20 - Pioneers stored fruits and vegetables in...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.12CQCh. 20 - Prob. 20.1PCh. 20 - Consider Joules apparatus described in Figure...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.3PCh. 20 - The highest waterfall in the world is the Salto...Ch. 20 - What mass of water at 25.0C must be allowed to...Ch. 20 - The temperature of a silver bar rises by 10.0C...Ch. 20 - In cold climates, including the northern United...Ch. 20 - A 50.0-g sample of copper is at 25.0C. If 1 200 J...Ch. 20 - An aluminum cup of mass 200 g contains 800 g of...Ch. 20 - If water with a mass mk at temperature Tk is...Ch. 20 - A 1.50-kg iron horseshoe initially at 600C is...Ch. 20 - An electric drill with a steel drill bit of mass m...Ch. 20 - An aluminum calorimeter with a mass of 100 g...Ch. 20 - A 3.00-g copper coin at 25.0C drops 50.0 m to the...Ch. 20 - Two thermally insulated vessels are connected by a...Ch. 20 - A 50.0-g copper calorimeter contains 250 g of...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.17PCh. 20 - How much energy is required to change a 40.0-g ice...Ch. 20 - A 75.0-g ice cube at 0C is placed in 825 g of...Ch. 20 - A 3.00-g lead bullet at 30.0C is fired at a speed...Ch. 20 - Steam at 100C is added to ice at 0C. (a) Find the...Ch. 20 - A 1.00-kg Mock of copper at 20.0C is dropped into...Ch. 20 - In an insulated vessel, 250 g of ice at 0C is...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.24PCh. 20 - An ideal gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.26PCh. 20 - One mole of an ideal gas is warmed slowly so that...Ch. 20 - (a) Determine the work done on a gas that expands...Ch. 20 - An ideal gas is taken through a quasi-static...Ch. 20 - A gas is taken through the cyclic process...Ch. 20 - Consider the cyclic process depicted in Figure...Ch. 20 - Why is the following situation impossible? An...Ch. 20 - A thermodynamic system undergoes a process in...Ch. 20 - A sample of an ideal gas goes through the process...Ch. 20 - A 2.00-mol sample of helium gas initially at 300...Ch. 20 - (a) How much work is done on the steam when 1.00...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.37PCh. 20 - One mole of an ideal gas does 3 000 J of work on...Ch. 20 - A 1.00-kg block of aluminum is warmed at...Ch. 20 - In Figure P19.22, the change in internal energy of...Ch. 20 - An ideal gas initially at Pi, Vi, and Ti is taken...Ch. 20 - An ideal gas initially at Pi, Vi, and Ti is taken...Ch. 20 - A glass windowpane in a home is 0.620 cm thick and...Ch. 20 - A concrete slab is 12.0 cm thick and has an area...Ch. 20 - A student is trying to decide what to wear. His...Ch. 20 - The surface of the Sun has a temperature of about...Ch. 20 - The tungsten filament of a certain 100-W lightbulb...Ch. 20 - At high noon, the Sun delivers 1 000 W to each...Ch. 20 - Two lightbulbs have cylindrical filaments much...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.50PCh. 20 - A copper rod and an aluminum rod of equal diameter...Ch. 20 - A box with a total surface area of 1.20 m2 and a...Ch. 20 - (a) Calculate the R-value of a thermal window made...Ch. 20 - At our distance from the Sun, the intensity of...Ch. 20 - A bar of gold (Au) is in thermal contact with a...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.56PCh. 20 - Prob. 20.57PCh. 20 - A gas expands from I to Fin Figure P20.58 (page...Ch. 20 - Gas in a container is at a pressure of 1.50 atm...Ch. 20 - Liquid nitrogen has a boiling point of 77.3 K and...Ch. 20 - An aluminum rod 0.500 m in length and with a cross...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.62APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.63APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.64APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.65APCh. 20 - An ice-cube tray is filled with 75.0 g of water....Ch. 20 - On a cold winter day. you buy roasted chestnuts...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.68APCh. 20 - An iron plate is held against an iron wheel so...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.70APCh. 20 - A 40.0-g ice cube floats in 200 g of water in a...Ch. 20 - One mole of an ideal gas is contained in a...Ch. 20 - Review. A 670-kg meteoroid happens to be composed...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.74APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.75APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.76APCh. 20 - Water in an electric teakettle is boiling. The...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.78APCh. 20 - Prob. 20.79APCh. 20 - A student measures the following data in a...Ch. 20 - Consider the piston cylinder apparatus shown in...Ch. 20 - A spherical shell has inner radius 3.00 cm and...Ch. 20 - Prob. 20.83CPCh. 20 - (a) The inside of a hollow cylinder is maintained...
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, physics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- In winter, why did the pioneers store an open barrel of water alongside their produce?arrow_forwardIn a chemical processing plant, a reaction chamber of fixed volume V0 is connected to a reservoir chamber of fixed volume 4V0 by a passage containing a thermally insulating porous plug. The plug permits the chambers to be at different temperatures. The plug allows gas to pass from either chamber to the other, ensuring that the pressure is the same in both. At one point in the processing, both chambers contain gas at a pressure of 1.00 atm and a temperature of 27.0C. Intake and exhaust valves to the pair of chambers are closed. The reservoir is maintained at 27.0C while the reaction chamber is heated to 400C. What is the pressure in both chambers after that is done?arrow_forwardTwo cylinders A and B at the same temperature contain the same quantity of the same kind of gas. Cylinder A has three times the volume of cylinder B. What can you conclude about the pressures the gases exert? (a) We can conclude nothing about the pressures. (b) The pressure in A is three times the pressure in B. (c) The pressures must be equal. (d) The pressure in A must be one-third the pressure in B.arrow_forward
- When a gas undergoes an adiabatic expansion, which of the following statements is true? (a) The temperature of the gas does not change. (b) No work is done by the gas. (c) No energy is transferred to the gas by heat. (d) The internal energy of the gas does not change. (e) The pressure increases.arrow_forwardA cylinder with a piston contains a sample of a thin gas. The kind of gas and the sample size can be changed. The cylinder can be placed in different constant-temperature baths, and the piston can be held in different positions. Rank the following cases according to the pressure of the gas from the highest to the lowest, displaying any cases of equality, (a) A 0.002-mol sample of oxygen is held at .300 K in a 100-cm3 container. (b) A 0.002-mol sample of oxygen is held at 600 K in a 200-cm3 container, (c) A 0.002-mol sample of oxygen is held at 600 K in a 300-cm3 container, (d) A 0.004-mol sample of helium is held at .300 K in a 200-cm3 container, (e) A 0.004-mol sample of helium is held at 250 K in a 200-cm3 container.arrow_forward(a) Use the ideal gas equation to estimate the temperature at which 1.00 kg of steam (molar mass M=18.0 g/mol) at a pressure of 1.50106 Pa occupies a volume of 0.220 m3. (b) The van der Waals constants for water are a=0.5537 Pa m6/mol2 and b=3.049105 m3/mol. Use the Van der Waals equation of state to estimate the temperature under the same conditions. (c) The actual temperature is 779 K. Which estimate is better? `arrow_forward
- A resting adult of average size converts chemical energy in food into internal energy at the rate 120 W, called her basal metabolic rate. To stay at constant temperature, the body must put out energy at the same rate. Several processes exhaust energy from your body. Usually, the most important is thermal conduction into the air in contact with your exposed skin. If you are not wearing a hat, a convection current of warm air rises vertically from your head like a plume from a smokestack. Your body also loses energy by electromagnetic radiation, by your exhaling warm air, and by evaporation of perspiration. In this problem, consider still another pathway for energy loss: moisture in exhaled breath. Suppose you breathe out 22.0 breaths per minute, each with a volume of 0.600 L. Assume that you inhale dry air and exhale air at 37C containing water vapor with a vapor pressure of 3.20 kPa. The vapor came from evaporation of liquid water in your body. Model the water vapor as an ideal gas. Assume that its latent heat of evaporation at 37C is the same as its heat of vaporization at 100C. Calculate the rate at which you lose energy by exhaling humid air.arrow_forwardIf a gas is compressed isothermally, which of the following statements is true? (a) Energy is transferred into the gas by heat. (b) No work is done on the gas. (c) The temperature of the gas increases. (d) The internal energy of the gas remains constant. (e) None of those statements is true.arrow_forwardReview. This problem is a continuation of Problem 39 in Chapter 19. A hot-air balloon consists of an envelope of constant volume 400 m3. Not including tire air inside, the balloon and cargo have mass 200 kg. The air outside and originally inside is a diatomic ideal gas at 10.0C and 101 kPa, with density 1.25 kg/m3. A propane burner at the center of the spherical envelope injects energy into the air inside. The air inside stays at constant pressure. Hot air, at just the temperature required to make the balloon lift off, starts to fill the envelope at its closed top, rapidly enough so that negligible energy flows by heat to the cool air below it or out through the wall of the balloon. Air at 10C leaves through an opening at the bottom of the envelope until the whole balloon is filled with hot air at uniform temperature. Then the burner is shut off and the balloon rises from the ground. (a) Evaluate the quantity of energy the burner must transfer to the air in the balloon. (b) The heat value of propanethe internal energy released by burning each kilogramis 50.3 MJ/kg. What mass of propane must be burned?arrow_forward
- Review. This problem is a continuation of Problem 16.29 in Chapter 16. A hot-air balloon consists of an envelope of constant volume 400 m3. Not including the air inside, the balloon and cargo have mass 200 kg. The air outside and originally inside is a diatomic ideal gas at 10.0C and 101 kPa, with density 1.25 kg/m3. A propane burner at the center of the spherical envelope injects energy into the air inside. The air inside stays at constant pressure. Hot air, at just the temperature required to make the balloon lift off, starts to fill the envelope at its closed top, rapidly enough so that negligible energy flows by heat to the cool air below it or out through the wall of the balloon. Air at 10C leaves through an opening at the bottom of the envelope until the whole balloon is filled with hot air at uniform temperature. Then the burner is shut off and the balloon rises from the ground. (a) Evaluate the quantity of energy the burner must transfer to the air in the balloon. (b) The heat value of propanethe internal energy released by burning each kilogramis 50.3 MJ/kg. What mass of propane must be burned?arrow_forwardA rigid lank contains 1.50 moles of an ideal gas. Determine the number of moles of gas that must be withdrawn from the lank to lower the pressure of the gas from 25.0 atm to 5.00 atm. Assume the volume of the tank and the temperature of the gas remain constant during this operation.arrow_forwardThe world's deepest gold mine, which is located in South Africa, is over 5.1 km deep. Every day, the mine transfers enough energy by heat to the mine's cooling systems to melt 348114 kg of ice at 0.0 degrees Celsius. If the energy output from the mine is increased by 9.6 percent, to what final temperature will the 348114 kg of ice-cold water be heated? Latent Heat of fusion of Ice-3.33 × 105 J/kg Specific heat capacity of Water = 4186J/(kg. °C)arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Technology ...PhysicsISBN:9781305116399Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. JewettPublisher:Cengage LearningPrinciples of Physics: A Calculus-Based TextPhysicsISBN:9781133104261Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. JewettPublisher:Cengage LearningCollege PhysicsPhysicsISBN:9781285737027Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris VuillePublisher:Cengage Learning
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations...PhysicsISBN:9781133939146Author:Katz, Debora M.Publisher:Cengage Learning
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Technology ...
Physics
ISBN:9781305116399
Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text
Physics
ISBN:9781133104261
Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
Publisher:Cengage Learning
College Physics
Physics
ISBN:9781285737027
Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations...
Physics
ISBN:9781133939146
Author:Katz, Debora M.
Publisher:Cengage Learning
The Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy, and Gibbs Free Energy; Author: Professor Dave Explains;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1BxHgsoOw;License: Standard YouTube License, CC-BY