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3 years ago

Which part of the steam engine does the work?

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Imagine living off nothing but coal and water and still having enough energy to run at over 100 mph! That's exactly what a steam locomotive can do. Although these giant mechanical dinosaurs are now extinct from most of the world's railroads, steam technology lives on in people's hearts and locomotives like this still run as tourist attractions on many heritage railways.

Steam locomotives were powered by steam engines, and deserve to be remembered because they swept the world through the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Steam engines rank with cars, airplanes, telephones, radio, and television among the greatest inventions of all time. They are marvels of machinery and excellent examples of engineering, but under all that smoke and steam, how exactly do they work?

vazorg [7]3 years ago

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The piston is correct

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Answer:

Acceleration = 10.06 m/s²

Explanation:

1 mile = 1.6093km

1609.3m = 1 mile

1 m = $\frac{1}{1609}$ mile

50.0 miles/hour = $\frac{50 * 1609.3}{60 * 60}$ m/s

= 22.35m/s

from equation

S = Ut + 1/2 at²

v = U + at

22.35 = 0 + a * 2.22

a = 22.35 ÷ 2.22

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3 years ago

Sound with frequency 1300 Hz leaves a room through a doorway with a width of 1.03 m . At what minimum angle relative to the cent

AlexFokin [52]

Answer:

about 14.7°

Explanation:

The formula for the angle of the first minimum is ...

sin(θ) = λ/a

where θ is the angle relative to the door centerline, λ is the wavelength of the sound, and "a" is the width of the door.

The wavelength of the sound is the speed of sound divided by the frequency:

λ = (340 m/s)/(1300 Hz) ≈ 0.261538 m

Then the angle of interest is ...

θ = arcsin(0.261538/1.03) ≈ 14.7°

At an angle of about 14.7°, someone outside the room will hear no sound.

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What mass of silver (in grams) is solidified when 749 joules of heat are released by a sample of molten silver at its freezing p

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heat released Q = 749 joules

heat of fusion of silver L = 109 J/g

Here phase of silver is changing from liquid to solid

so temperature will remain same

all heat will be released due to its phase change

and in this case we use Q=mL

where m is the mass of silver in gram

Q= mL

749 = m * 109

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Sound waves produced by a source pass a point five times every second. Which of the following choices correctly describes the pe

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The period is 1/5 second, and the frequency is 5 Hz.

Explanation:

Let's start by reviewing some definitions about waves:

- The period of a wave is the time taken for the wave to make one complete cycle. It is indicated with T and it is measured in seconds (s)

- The frequency of a wave is the number of complete cycles made by the wave in one second. It is indicated with f and it is measured in Hertz (Hz). It is equal to the reciprocal of the period:

$f=\frac{1}{T}$

where f is the frequency and T is the period.

In this problem, we have a wave that passes a given point five time per second. This means that the number of oscillations per second is five, and so its frequency is:

$f=\frac{5 cycles}{1 sec}=5 Hz$