Michael porter developed the five forces model. of the five forces, there were three that had to do with competitive forces and two that had to do with bargaining power forces. two strength factors that relate to all three of the competitive forces are switching costs and

Kate is working on a project in her tech education class. she plans to assemble a fan motor. which form of energy does the motor convert most of its electric energy into? a. light energy b. motion energy c. sound energy d. thermal energy

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.

Where is the potential energy throughout the loading, cocking, and releasing of the trebuchet?