The system is released from rest with no slack in the cable and with the spring unstretched. determine the distance s traveled by the 4-kg cart before it comes to rest (a) if m approaches zero and (b) if m = 3 kg. assume no mechanical interference and no friction, and state whether the distance traveled is up or down the incline.

The man fires an 80 g arrow so that it is moving at 80 m/s when it hits and embeds in a 8.0 kg block resting on ice. how far will the block slide on the ice before stopping? a 7.1 n friction force opposes its motion.

What color of light must blue light mix with to create white light? a. yellow b. white c. blue d. green

As part of an industrial process, air as an ideal gas at 10 bar, 400k expands at steady state through a valve to a pressure of 4 bar. the mass flow rate of air is 0.5 kg/s. the air then passes through a heat exchanger where it is cooled to a temperature of 295k with negligible change in pressure. the valve can be modeled as a throttling process, and kinetic and potential energy effects can be neglected. (a) for a control volume enclosing the valve and heat exchanger and enough of the local surroundings that the heat transfer occurs at the ambient temperature of 295 k, determine the rate of entropy production, in kw/k. (b) if the expansion valve were replaced by an adiabatic turbine operating isentropically, what would be the entropy production? compare the results of parts (a) and (b) and discuss.