Two small rings each of weight w can slide on a fixed rough horizontal rod. the rings are attached one to each end of a uniform chain of weight 4w and length 4a so that the chain hangs freely from the rings. if the coefficient of friction between each ring and the rod is 1/2, find the distance between the rings when they are in limiting equilibrium. prove that the lowest point of the chain is then at a depth a below the rod.

How much force was applied to an object if was moved 2 meters and the work done on the object was 8 joules? a. 0.25 n b. 4 n c. 6 n d. 16 n

Two conductors, a and b, are each in the shape of a tetrahedron. but of different sizes. they are charged in the following manner: 1. tetrahedron a is charged from an electrostatic generator to charge q. 2. tetrahedron a is briefly touched to tetrahedron b. 3. steps 1 and 2 are repeated until the charge on tetrahedron b reaches a maximum value. if the charge on tetrahedron b was q/4 after the first time it touched tetrahedron a. what is the final charge qbmax on tetrahedron b?

Consider a file currently consisting of 200 blocks. assume that the file control block (and the index block in the case of indexed allocation) is already in memory. calculate how many disk i/o operations are required for contiguous, linked, and indexed (single-level) allocation strategies, for each of the conditions listed below. in the contiguous-allocation case, assume that there is not room to grow at the beginning but there is room to grow at the end. also assume that the block information to be added is stored in memory.