A friend climbs an apple tree and drops a 0.22-kg apple from rest to you, standing 3.5 m below. When you catch the apple, you bring it to rest in 0.28 s. What average force did you exert on the apple to bring it to rest? (Be sure to include both the weight of the apple and the force needed to bring it to rest.)

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.

If the spring constant k of a pogo stick is 3500 n m and the weight of the person on the pogo stick is 700 n, how much is the spring in the botom of the pogo stick compressed?

Ryan is examining the energy of the particles in a bar of gold. what is ryan most likely studying?