Three charges are fixed in place as shown. the squares in the grid have sides of length s = 0.24 m. the magnitude of q is 3 μcoulombs (1 μcoulomb = 10-6 coulombs), while the magnitude of q is 4.5 μcoulombs. what is the magnitude of the net force on q due to the other two charges? f+q =

Agas is contained in a vertical, frictionless piston–cylinder device. the piston has a mass of 3.2 kg and a cross-sectional area of 35 cm2. a compressed spring above the piston exerts a force of 190 n on the piston. if the atmospheric pressure is 95 kpa, determine the pressure inside the cylinder.

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.

Calculate the work done by an external agent during an isothermal compression of 1.00 mol of oxygen from a volume of 22.4 l at 10∘c and 1.0 atm pressure to 16.8l