Students in an introductory physics lab are performing an experiment with a parallel-plate capacitor made of two circular aluminum plates, each 20 cm in diameter, separated by 1.0 cm. How much charge can be added to each of the plates before a spark jumps between the two plates? For such flat electrodes, the field that causes a spark is at the high end of the range pre- sented in the chapter; assume a value of 3 * 106 N/C.

Steam is generated in a boiler of a cogeneration plant at 10 mpa and 450°c at a steady rate of 5 kg/s. in normal operation, steam expands in a turbine to a pressure of 0.5 mpa and is then routed to the process heater, where it supplies the process heat. steam leaves the process heater as a saturated liquid and is pumped to the boiler pressure. in this mode, no steam passes through a condenser, which operates at 20 kpa. (a) determine the power produced in the turbine and the rate at which process heat is supplied in this mode. (b) determine the power produced in the turbine and the rate of process heat supplied if only 60 percent of the steam is routed to the process heater and the remainder is expanded to the condenser pressure. (3.32 mw; 9.69 mw; 4.25 mw; 5.82 mw)

Assume similar data for the motion of the blood in your aorta. estimate how many beats of the heart it will take the blood to get from your heart to your brain. (assume that the distance from your heart to your brain is 30 cm)

Calculate the capacitance of a system that stores 2.0 x 10^-10c of charge at 100.0 v. use c=q/v. a. 2.0 x 10^-12 f b. 2.0 x 10^-8 f c. 5.0 x 10^11 f d. 5.0 x 10^7 f