Answer:
C) steel turning to rust in salt air
Explanation:
The missing options are:
A) ice melting to form liquid water
B) water boiling to form steam
C) steel turning to rust in salt air
D) sugar dissolving into hot coffee
In a chemical change the atoms of the reacting compounds are reordered forming new compounds. In a chemical change, new compounds appear, but in a physical change not.
Then, change of states like ice melting and water boiling are not chemical changes.
During steel rust, components of steel, like iron, are oxidized, that is, reacts with oxygen forming oxides.
The dissolution of sugar into hot coffee is a physical change in which sugar molecules get further apart in the coffee, but they don't change.
Friction produces heat hope this helps
You have effectively got two capacitors in parallel. The effective capacitance is just the sum of the two.
Cequiv = ε₀A/d₁ + ε₀A/d₂ Take these over a common denominator (d₁d₂)
Cequiv = ε₀d₂A + ε₀d₁A / (d₁d₂) Cequiv = ε₀A( (d₁ + d₂) / (d₁d₂) )
B) It's tempting to just wave your arms and say that when d₁ or d₂ tends to zero C -> ∞, so the minimum will occur in the middle, where d₁ = d₂
But I suppose we ought to kick that idea around a bit.
(d₁ + d₂) is effectively a constant. It's the distance between the two outer plates. Call it D.
C = ε₀AD / d₁d₂ We can also say: d₂ = D - d₁ C = ε₀AD / d₁(D - d₁) C = ε₀AD / d₁D - d₁²
Differentiate with respect to d₁
dC/dd₁ = -ε₀AD(D - 2d₁) / (d₁D - d₁²)² {d2C/dd₁² is positive so it will give us a minimum} For max or min equate to zero.
-ε₀AD(D - 2d₁) / (d₁D - d₁²)² = 0 -ε₀AD(D - 2d₁) = 0 ε₀, A, and D are all non-zero, so (D - 2d₁) = 0 d₁ = ½D
In other words when the middle plate is halfway between the two outer plates, (quelle surprise) so that
d₁ = d₂ = ½D so
Cmin = ε₀AD / (½D)² Cmin = 4ε₀A / D Cmin = 4ε₀A / (d₁ + d₂)
B is correct makes more sense
