Solutions for College Physics Volume 1 (Chs. 1-16); Mastering Physics with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for College Physics (10th Edition)
Problem 1CQ:
Under what conditions will the entropy of a gas decrease as the gas expands? Why doesnt this violate...Problem 4CQ:
A growing plant creates a highly complex and organized structure out of simple materials, such as...Problem 5CQ:
Why must a room air conditioner be placed in a window rather than just set on the floor and plugged...Problem 6CQ:
If you pour a cup of hot water into a cup of cold water, you wind up with two cups of lukewarm...Problem 7CQ:
How can the thermal conduction of heat from a hot object to a cold object increase entropy when the...Problem 8CQ:
How can the free expansion of a gas into a vacuum increase entropy when no heat is added to (or...Problem 9CQ:
Does the second law of thermodynamics say that heat can never go from a cold object to a hot object?...Problem 12CQ:
What would be the efficiency of a Carnot engine operating with TH = Tc? What would be the efficiency...Problem 13CQ:
The first law of thermodynamics is sometimes paraphrased as You cant get something for nothing. The...Problem 14CQ:
Would it be more economical to run a refrigerator with a high or a low coefficient of performance?...Problem 1MCP:
An insulated box has a carrier that confines a gas to only one side of the box. The barrier springs...Problem 3MCP:
Carnot engine A operates between temperatures of 200C and 450C; Carnot engine B operates between...Problem 6MCP:
You want to increase the efficiency of a Carnot heat engine by changing the temperature of either...Problem 8MCP:
You perform 100 J of work on a refrigerator that extracts heat from a cold reservoir and dumps heat...Problem 9MCP:
If you mix cold milk with hot coffee in an insulated Styrofoam cup, which of the following things...Problem 10MCP:
A glass of water left outside on a cold night freezes into solid ice, and its entropy decreases....Problem 1P:
A coal-fired power plant that operates at an efficiency of 38% generates 750 MW of electric power....Problem 2P:
Each cycle, a certain heat engine expels 250 J of heat when you put in 325 J of heat. Find the...Problem 3P:
A diesel engine performs 2200 J of mechanical work and discards 4300 J of heat each cycle. (a) How...Problem 4P:
An aircraft engine has a heat efficiency of e = 0.3. It discards 6400 J each cycle. (a) How much...Problem 5P:
A certain nuclear power plant has a thermal efficiency e = 0.25. Its rate of heat input from the...Problem 6P:
Figure 16.15 shows a pV diagram for a heat engine that uses 1.40 moles of an deal diatomic gas. The...Problem 7P:
The pV diagram in Figure 16.16 shows a cycle of a heat engine that uses 0.250 mole of an ideal gas...Problem 8P:
A gasoline engine. A gasoline engine takes in 1.61 104 J of heat and delivers 3700 J of work per...Problem 9P:
A gasoline engine has a power output of 180 kW (about 241 hp). Its thermal efficiency is 28.0%. (a)...Problem 10P:
In one cycle, a freezer uses 785 J of electrical energy in order to remove 1750 J of heat from its...Problem 11P:
A refrigerator has a coefficient of performance of K = 2.0. Each cycle, it absorbs 3.40 104 J of...Problem 13P:
A freezer has a coefficient of performance of 2.40. The freezer is to convert 1.80 kg of water at...Problem 14P:
A cooing unit for chilling the water of an aquarium gives specifications of 1/10 hp and 1270 Btu/h....Problem 15P:
A Carnot engine whose high-temperature reservoir is at 620 K takes in 550 J of heat at this...Problem 16P:
A heat engine is to be built to extract energy from the temperature gradient in the ocean. If the...Problem 17P:
A Carnot engine is operated between two heat reservoirs at temperatures of 520 K and 300 K. (a) If...Problem 18P:
A Carnot engine has an efficiency of 59% and performs 2.5 104 J of work in each cycle. (a) How much...Problem 19P:
An ice-making machine operates as a Carnot refrigerator. It takes heat from water at 0.0C and...Problem 20P:
A Carnot freezer that runs on electricity removes heat from the freezer compartment, which is at...Problem 21P:
Set Up: For an engine, W and QH positive and QC is negative. For a refrigerator, QC is positive and...Problem 22P:
A sophomore with nothing better to do adds heat to 0.350 kg of ice at 0.00C until it is all melted....Problem 23P:
A 4.50 kg block of ice at 0.00C falls into the ocean and melts. The average temperature of the ocean...Problem 24P:
You decide to take a nice hot bath but discover that your thoughtless roommate has used up most of...Problem 25P:
A crucible contains 0.1 kg of liquid lead that is at its melting point (600 K). What is the change...Problem 26P:
Three moles of an ideal gas undergo a reversible isothermal compression at 20.0C. During this...Problem 27P:
Entropy change due to driving. Premium gasoline produces 1.23 108 J of heat per gallon when it is...Problem 28P:
Entropy change from a doughnut. A typical doughnut contains approximately 200 food calories...Problem 29P:
Solar collectors. A well-insulated house of moderate size in a temperate climate requires an average...Problem 31P:
An experimental power plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii generates electricity from...Problem 32P:
Solar water heater. A solar water heater for domestic hot-water supply uses solar collecting panels...Problem 33GP:
You are designing a Carnal engine that has 2 mol of CO2 as its working substance; the gas may be...Problem 34GP:
A heat engine takes 0.350 mol of an ideal diatomic gas around the cycle shown in the pV diagram of...Problem 35GP:
As a budding mechanical engineer, you are called upon to design a Carnal engine that has 2.00 moles...Problem 37GP:
A Carnot engine operates between two heat reservoirs at temperatures TH and TC. An inventor proposes...Problem 38GP:
An engineer is working with a Carnot engine that has an unknown cold-reservoir temperature (TC) but...Problem 39GP:
Human entropy. A person having skin of surface area 1.85 m2 and temperature 30.0C is resting in an...Problem 40GP:
A typical coal-fired power plant generates 1000 MW of usable power at an overall thermal efficiency...Problem 41GP:
A human engine. You decide to use your body as a Carnot heat engine. The operating gas is in a tube...Problem 42GP:
One end of a copper rod is immersed in boiling water at 100C and the other end in an icewater...Problem 43GP:
The pV diagram in Figure 16.19 shows a heat engine operating on 0.850 mol of H2. (See Table 15.4.)...Problem 44PP:
Passage Problems Power from the sea. Ocean thermal energy conversion is a process that uses the...Problem 45PP:
What is the change in entropy of the ammonia vaporized per second in the 10 MW power plant, assuming...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
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