What can provide a warning for earthquakes about 10% of the time? Why is this warning system not all that reliable?

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.

The protons in a nucleus are approximately 2 ✕ 10^−15 m apart. consider the case where the protons are a distance d = 1.93 ✕ 10^−15 m apart. calculate the magnitude of the electric force (in n) between two protons at this distance.

An ascending elevator, hanging from a cable, is coming to a stop. part a part complete identify all forces acting on the elevator from the list below. select all that apply. select all that apply. kinetic friction normal force tension weight static friction submitprevious answers correct part b draw a free-body diagram of the object. draw the vectors starting at the black dot. the location and orientation of the vectors will be graded. the exact length of your vectors will not be graded but the relative length of one to the other will be graded.