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3 years ago

What does it mean for water to have a high heat capacity

Physics

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Aliun [14]3 years ago

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Answer:

Its heat capacity is higher than that of any other liquid or solid, its specific heat being 1 cal / g, this means that to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 ° C it is necessary to provide an amount of heat equal to a calorie . Therefore, the heat capacity of 1 g of water is equal to 1 cal / K.

Explanation:

The water has a very high heat capacity, a large amount of heat is necessary to raise its temperature 1.0 ° K. For biological systems this is very important because the cellular temperature is modified very little in response to metabolism. In the same way, aquatic organisms, if water did not possess that quality, would be very affected or would not exist.

This means that a body of water can absorb or release large amounts of heat, with little temperature change, which has a great influence on the weather (large bodies of water in the oceans take longer to heat and cool than the ground land). Its latent heats of vaporization and fusion (540 and 80 cal / g, respectively) are also exceptionally high.

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Suppose you are standing at the exact center of a park surrounded by a circular road. An ambulance drives completely around this

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Answer: The pitch of the sound does not change.

Explanation: The pitch of sound wave is dependent on the frequency of the sound wave. The frequency of sound wave when their is a relative motion between an observer and a source is given by Doppler effect.

Doppler effect is a mathematical equation that gives the relationship between the observed frequency by an observer from any sound source and the relative motion between the observer and the source.

Mathematically,

f'= (v+v') /(v-vs) * f

Where f' = observed frequency of sound wave

v= speed of sound in air

v'= velocity of observer relative to sound source

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f= frequency of sound produced by source

The observer is at the center, thus the distance between the observer and the source is constant (according to mensuration, the radius is constant for any given circle and since the car is moving along a circular path and the observer is at the center, thus the distance between them is constant), thus making the relative velocity between the observer and the source constant (vs=constant).

Also the frequency of sound wave produce by the source is a constant (f=constant)

The speed of sound in air is also a constant (v=336m/s)

The observer is standing at the center thus he is not moving, hence the relative motion between observer and source is also constant (v'=constant)

Since all parameters are constant, then the observed frequency will be constant too.

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3 years ago

A large power plant heats 1917 kg of water per second to high-temperature steam to run its electrical generators.

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Complete Question

A large power plant heats 1917 kg of water per second to high-temperature steam to run its electrical generators.

(a) How much heat transfer is needed each second to raise the water temperature from 35.0°C to 100°C, boil it, and then raise the resulting steam from 100°C to 450°C? Specific heat of water is 4184 J/(kg · °C), the latent heat of vaporization of water is 2256 kJ/kg, and the specific heat of steam is 1520 J/(kg · °C).

(b) How much power is needed in megawatts? (Note: In real power plants, this process occurs under high pressure, which alters the boiling point. The results of this problem are only approximate.)

Answer:

The heat transferred is $Q = 5.866 * 10^9 J$

The power is $P = 5866\ MW$

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

Mass of the water per second is $m = 1917 \ kg$

The initial temperature of the water is $T_i = 35^oC$

The boiling point of water is $T_b = 100^oC$

The final temperature $T_f = 450^oC$

The latent heat of vapourization of water is $c__{L}} = 2256*10^3 J/kg$

The specific heat of water $c_w = 4184 J/kg^oC$

The specific heat of stem is $C_s =1520 \ J/kg ^oC$

Generally the heat needed each second is mathematically represented as

$Q = m[c_w (T_i - T_b) + m* c__{L}} + m* c__{S}} (T_f - T_b)]$

Then substituting the value

$Q = m[c_w [T_i - T_b] + c__{L}} + C__{S}} [T_f - T_b]]$

$Q = 1917 [(4184) [100 - 35] + [2256 * 10^3] +[1520] [450 - 100]]$

$Q = 1917 * [3.05996 * 10^6]$

$Q = 5.866 * 10^9 J$

The power required is mathematically represented as

$P = \frac{Q}{t}$

From the question $t = 1\ s$

$P = \frac{5.866 *10^9}{1}$

$P = 5866*10^6 \ W$

$P = 5866\ MW$

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3 years ago

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