An increase in humidity can strengthen the water cycle, because humidity is essentially boosted evaporation. When you have evaporation, that comes automatically with condensation and precipitation, so rain and cloud cover increases.

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According to the second law of thermodynamics, it is impossible for ____________. According to the second law of thermodynamics,

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Answer:

It's impossible for an ideal heat engine to have non-zero power.

Explanation:

Option A is incomplete and so it's possible.

Option B is possible

Option D is related to the first lae and has nothing to do with the second law.

Hence, the correct option is C.

The ideal engine follows a reversible cycle albeit an infinitely slow one. If the work is being done at this infinitely slow rate, the power of such an engine is zero.

We can also stat the second law of thermodynamics in this manner;

It is impossible to construct a cyclical heat engine whose sole effect is the continuous transfer of heat energy from a colder object to a hotter one.

This statement is known as second form or Clausius statement of the second law.

Thus, it is possible to construct a machine in which a heat flow from a colder to a hotter object is accompanied by another process, such as work input.

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Two ice skaters, paula and ricardo, push off from each other. ricardo weighs more than paula. part a which skater, if either, ha

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Apply the law of conservation of momentum for this situation. The law states that the momentum of a system is constant (in absence of external forces acting on it).

The 'system' in this case are the two skaters. There is no external force on the skaters. Suppose the skaters are initially standing still. The momentum in the system is 0. This value will need to remain constant, even after the mutual push (which is a set of forces from <em>inside</em> the system). So we know that

(total momentum before) = (total momentum after)

Indexing the masses and velocities by the first letter of the skaters' names:

$0 = m_P\vec v_P+m_R\vec v_R\\m_P\vec v_P = m_R(-\vec v_R)$

From the last row, you can see that the skaters will have momentum of same magnitude but opposite direction, after the push off. That answers the first question: neither will have a greater momentum (both will have one of same magnitude).

Since Ricardo is heavier, from the above equality it follows that

$m_R>m_P\implies|\vec v_R|$

In words, Paula has the greater speed, after the push-off.

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