College Physics

5 heads, 0 tails (15.67) 4 heads, 1 tail 3 heads, 2 tails 2 heads, 3 tails 1 head, 4 tails 0 head, 5 tails These are what we cal ...

Table 15.4100-Coin Toss Macrostate Number of microstates Heads Tails (W) 100 0 1 99 1 1.0× 102 95 5 7.5× 107 90 10 1. 7 × 1013 7 ...

Figure 15.40(a) The ordinary state of gas in a container is a disorderly, random distribution of atoms or molecules with a Maxwe ...

adiabatic process: Carnot cycle: Carnot efficiency: Carnot engine: change in entropy: coefficient of performance: cyclical proce ...

second law of thermodynamics stated in terms of entropy: second law of thermodynamics: statistical analysis: the total entropy o ...

The entropy of a system in a given state (a macrostate) can be written as S=klnW, wherek= 1.38×10–23J/Kis Boltzmann’s constant ...

10.Would the previous question make any sense for an isochoric process? Explain your answer. 11.We ordinarily say thatΔU= 0for a ...

30.Does a gas become more orderly when it liquefies? Does its entropy change? If so, does the entropy increase or decrease? Expl ...

Problems & Exercises 15.1 The First Law of Thermodynamics 1.What is the change in internal energy of a car if you put 12.0 g ...

23.(a) What is the efficiency of a cyclical heat engine in which 75.0 kJ of heat transfer occurs to the environment for every 95 ...

45.A 4-ton air conditioner removes5.06× 107 J(48,000 British thermal units) from a cold environment in 1.00 h. (a) What energy i ...

and 6 tails)? (b) You can realistically toss 10 coins and count the number of heads and tails about twice a minute. At that rate ...

16 OSCILLATORY MOTION AND WAVES Figure 16.1There are at least four types of waves in this picture—only the water waves are evide ...

Introduction to Oscillatory Motion and Waves What do an ocean buoy, a child in a swing, the cone inside a speaker, a guitar, ato ...

Figure 16.4(a) A graph of absolute value of the restoring force versus displacement is displayed. The fact that the graph is a s ...

k= −F (16.2) x. Substitute known values and solvek: k = − 784 N (16.3) −1. 20 ×10−^2 m = 6. 53 ×10 4 N/m. Discussion Note thatFa ...

Figure 16.7(a) In this image of the gun, the spring is uncompressed before being cocked. (b) The spring has been compressed a di ...

16.2 Period and Frequency in Oscillations Figure 16.8The strings on this guitar vibrate at regular time intervals. (credit: JAR) ...

Substitute the given value for the frequency into the resulting expression: T=^1 (16.14) f =^1 264 Hz =^1 264 cycles/s = 3.79× ...

In fact, the massmand the force constantkare theonlyfactors that affect the period and frequency of simple harmonic motion. Peri ...