Simple Nature - Light and Matter

m/The Otto cycle. 1. In the ex- haust stroke, the piston expels the burned air-gas mixture left over from the preceding cycle. 2 ...

a/P-V diagrams for a Carnot engine and an Otto engine. the case of work done by a piston. HereP represents the pressure of the w ...

b/Example 23, The compression ratio example 22 Operating along a constant-temperature stroke, the amount of mechanical work done ...

c/Example 24. is being done: the wave (under the assumed ideal conditions) propagates without any loss of energy due to friction ...

e/A T-S diagram for a Carnot engine. d/The resonance curve of a 1713 Stradivarius violin, mea- sured by Carleen Hutchins. There ...

This chapter is summarized on page 1077. Notation and terminology are tabulated on pages 1066-1067. 346 Chapter 5 Thermodynamics ...

Problems The symbols √ , , etc. are explained on page 351. 1 (a) Show that under conditions of standard pressure and tem- peratu ...

7 (a) Determine the ratio between the escape velocities from the surfaces of the earth and the moon. √ (b) The temperature durin ...

10 Example 25 on page 344 suggests analyzing the resonance of a violin at 300 Hz as a Helmholtz resonance. However, we might exp ...

13 Object A is a brick. Object B is half of a similar brick. If A is heated, we have ∆S=Q/T. Show that if this equation is valid ...

18 In metals, some electrons, called conduction electrons, are free to move around, rather than being bound to one atom. Classic ...

352 Chapter 5 Thermodynamics ...

The vibrations of this electric bass string are converted to electrical vibra- tions, then to sound vibrations, and finally to v ...

a/Your finger makes a de- pression in the surface of the water, 1. The wave patterns starts evolving, 2, after you remove your f ...

b/The two circular patterns of ripples pass through each other. Unlike material objects, wave pat- terns can overlap in space, a ...

d/As the wave pulse goes by, the ribbon tied to the spring is not carried along. The motion of the wave pattern is to the right, ...

e/Example 2. The surfer is dragging his hand in the water. f/Example 3: a breaking wave. g/Example 4. The boat has run up agains ...

h/Circular and linear wave patterns. i/Plane and spherical wave patterns. the wave move ahead faster and get out of the way. The ...

Discussion Questions A The left panel of the figure shows a sequence of snapshots of two positive pulses on a coil spring as the ...

k/Hitting a key on a piano causes a hammer to come up from underneath and hit a string (actually a set of three). The result is ...