The process of star and planet formation begins with a large cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula. Rank the formation events that occur within a cloud from earliest to latest. Rank from earliest to latest. To rank items as equivalent, overlap them.
A. The cloud is large, cool, and slowly rotating
B. The cloud collapses into a disk
C. Competing rotational and gravitational forces begin to flatten the cloud
D. The cloud becomes denser, heats up, and rotates faster
E. The cloud starts to contract under the influence of gravity

Air enters a gas turbine with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion at 100 kpa and 17°c. this system uses a regenerator as well as reheating and intercooling – the intercooler returns the air to the inlet temperature. the pressure ratio across each compressor is 4 ; 300 kj/kg of heat are added to the air in each combustion chamber; and the regenerator operates perfectly while increasing the temperature of the cold air by 20°c. determine the system’s thermal efficiency. assume isentropic operations for all compressor and the turbine stages and use constant specific heats at room temperature. (0.378)