University Physics with Modern Physics (14th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321973610
Author: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17, Problem 17.12DQ
Why is a hot, humid day in the tropics generally more uncomfortable for human begins than a hot, dry day in the desert?
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Ch. 17.1 - You put a thermometer in a pot of hot water and...Ch. 17.2 - Which of the following types of thermometers have...Ch. 17.3 - Prob. 17.3TYUCh. 17.4 - In the bimetallic strip shown in Fig. 17.3a, metal...Ch. 17.5 - Prob. 17.5TYUCh. 17.6 - You take a block of ice at 0C and add heat to it...Ch. 17.7 - A room has one wall made of concrete, one wall...Ch. 17 - Explain why it would not make sense to use a...Ch. 17 - If you heat the air inside a rigid, scaled...Ch. 17 - Many automobile engines have cast-iron cylinders...
Ch. 17 - Why do frozen water pipes burst? Would a mercury...Ch. 17 - Two bodies made of the same material have the same...Ch. 17 - Why is it sometimes possible to loosen caps on...Ch. 17 - The inside of an oven is at a temperature of 200C...Ch. 17 - A newspaper article about the weather states that...Ch. 17 - A student asserts that a suitable unit for...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.10DQCh. 17 - The units of specific heat c are J/kg K, but the...Ch. 17 - Why is a hot, humid day in the tropics generally...Ch. 17 - A piece of aluminum foil used to wrap a potato for...Ch. 17 - Desert travelers sometimes keep water in a canvas...Ch. 17 - When you first step out of the shower, you feel...Ch. 17 - The climate of regions adjacent to large bodies of...Ch. 17 - When water is placed in ice-cube trays in a...Ch. 17 - Before giving you an injection, a physician swabs...Ch. 17 - A cold block of metal feels colder than a block of...Ch. 17 - A person pours a cup of hot coffee, intending to...Ch. 17 - When a freshly baked apple pie has just been...Ch. 17 - Old-time kitchen lore suggests that things cook...Ch. 17 - In coastal regions in the winter, the temperature...Ch. 17 - It is well known that a potato bakes faster if a...Ch. 17 - Glider pilots in the Midwest know that thermal...Ch. 17 - Some folks claim that ice cubes freeze faster if...Ch. 17 - Were lucky that the earth isnt in thermal...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.28DQCh. 17 - Convert the following Celsius temperatures to...Ch. 17 - BIO Temperatures in Biomedicine. (a) Normal body...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.3ECh. 17 - (a) Calculate the one temperature at which...Ch. 17 - You put a bottle of soft drink in a refrigerator...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.6ECh. 17 - The pressure of a gas at the triple point of water...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.8ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.9ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.10ECh. 17 - The Humber Bridge in England has the worlds...Ch. 17 - One of the tallest buildings in the world is the...Ch. 17 - A U.S. penny has a diameter of 1.9000 cm at 20.0C....Ch. 17 - Ensuring a Tight Fit. Aluminum rivets used in...Ch. 17 - A copper cylinder is initially at 20.0C. At what...Ch. 17 - A geodesic dome constructed with an aluminum...Ch. 17 - A glass flask whose volume is 1000.00 cm3 at 0.0C...Ch. 17 - A steel tank is completely filled with 1.90 m3 of...Ch. 17 - A machinist bores a hole of diameter 1.35 cm in a...Ch. 17 - As a new mechanical engineer for Engines Inc., you...Ch. 17 - Steel train rails are laid in 12.0-m-long segments...Ch. 17 - A brass rod is 185 cm long and 1.60 cm in...Ch. 17 - An aluminum tea kettle with mass 1.10 kg and...Ch. 17 - In an effort to stay awake for an all-night study...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.25ECh. 17 - BIO Heat Loss During Breathing. In very cold...Ch. 17 - You are given a sample of metal and asked to...Ch. 17 - On-Demand Water Heaters. Conventional hot-water...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.29ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.30ECh. 17 - CP A nail driven into a board increases in...Ch. 17 - A technician measures the specific heat of an...Ch. 17 - CP A 15.0-g bullet traveling horizontally at 865...Ch. 17 - You have 750 g of water at 10.0C in a large...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.35ECh. 17 - BIO Treatment for a Stroke. One suggested...Ch. 17 - A blacksmith cools a 1.20-kg chunk of iron,...Ch. 17 - A copper calorimeter can with mass 0.100 kg...Ch. 17 - A copper pot with a mass of 0.500 kg contains...Ch. 17 - In a container of negligible mass, 0.200 kg of ice...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.41ECh. 17 - BIO Before going in for his annual physical, a...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.43ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.44ECh. 17 - How much heat is required to convert 18.0 g of ice...Ch. 17 - An open container holds 0.550 kg of ice at 15.0C....Ch. 17 - CP What must the initial speed of a lead bullet be...Ch. 17 - BIO Steam Burns Versus Water Burns. What is the...Ch. 17 - BIO The Ship of the Desert. Camels require very...Ch. 17 - BIO Evaporation of sweat is an important mechanism...Ch. 17 - CP An asteroid with a diameter of 10 km and a mass...Ch. 17 - A laboratory technician drops a 0.0850-kg sample...Ch. 17 - An insulated beaker with negligible mass contains...Ch. 17 - A 4.00-kg silver ingot is taken from a furnace,...Ch. 17 - A vessel whose walls are thermally insulated...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.56ECh. 17 - Suppose that the rod in Fig. 17.24a is made of...Ch. 17 - One end of an insulated metal rod is maintained at...Ch. 17 - A carpenter builds an exterior house wall with a...Ch. 17 - An electric kitchen range has a total wall area of...Ch. 17 - BIO Conduction Through the Skin. The blood plays...Ch. 17 - A long rod, insulated to prevent heat loss along...Ch. 17 - A pot with a steel bottom 8.50 mm thick rests on a...Ch. 17 - You are asked to design a cylindrical steel rod...Ch. 17 - A picture window has dimensions of 1.40 m 2.50 m...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.66ECh. 17 - A spherical pot contains 0.75 L of hot coffee...Ch. 17 - The emissivity of tungsten is 0.350. A tungsten...Ch. 17 - Size of a Light-Bulb Filament. The operating...Ch. 17 - The Sizes of Stars. The hot glowing surfaces of...Ch. 17 - CP A Foucault pendulum consists of a brass sphere...Ch. 17 - Suppose that a steel hoop could be constructed to...Ch. 17 - You propose a new temperature scale with...Ch. 17 - CP CALC A 250-kg weight is hanging from the...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.75PCh. 17 - A surveyors 30.0-m steel tape is correct at 20.0C....Ch. 17 - A metal rod that is 30.0 cm long expands by 0.0650...Ch. 17 - On a cool (4.0C) Saturday morning, a pilot fills...Ch. 17 - (a) Equation (17.12) gives the stress required to...Ch. 17 - CP A metal wire, with density and Youngs modulus...Ch. 17 - A steel ring with a 2.5000-in. inside diameter at...Ch. 17 - BIO Doughnuts: Breakfast of Champions! Atypical...Ch. 17 - BIO Shivering. Shivering is your bodys way of...Ch. 17 - You cool a 100.0-g slug of red-hot iron...Ch. 17 - CALC Debyes T3 Law. At very low temperatures the...Ch. 17 - CP A person of mass 70.0 kg is sitting in the...Ch. 17 - Hot Air in a Physics Lecture. (a) A typical...Ch. 17 - CALC The molar heat capacity of a certain...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.89PCh. 17 - BIO Overheating. (a) By how much would the body...Ch. 17 - BIO A Thermodynamic Process in an Insect. The...Ch. 17 - Hot Water Versus Steam Heating. In a household...Ch. 17 - You have 1.50 kg of water at 28.0C in an insulated...Ch. 17 - A thirsty nurse cools a 2.00-L bottle of a soft...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.95PCh. 17 - A Styrofoam bucket of negligible mass contains...Ch. 17 - In a container of negligible mass, 0.0400 kg of...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.98PCh. 17 - Effect of a Window in a Door. A carpenter builds a...Ch. 17 - One experimental method of measuring an insulating...Ch. 17 - Compute the ratio of the rate of heat loss through...Ch. 17 - Rods of copper, brass, and steeleach with...Ch. 17 - A brass rod 12.0 cm long, a copper rod 18.0 cm...Ch. 17 - BIO Basal Metabolic Rate. The basal metabolic rate...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.105PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.106PCh. 17 - A Thermos for Liquid Helium. A physicist uses a...Ch. 17 - A metal sphere with radius 3.20 cm is suspended in...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.109PCh. 17 - The icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica contain...Ch. 17 - DATA As a physicist, yon put heat into a 500.0-g...Ch. 17 - DATA At a chemical plant where you are an...Ch. 17 - DATA During your mechanical engineering...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.114CPCh. 17 - A hollow cylinder has length L, inner radius a,...Ch. 17 - You place 35 g of this cryoprotectant at 22C in...Ch. 17 - Careful measurements show that the specific heat...Ch. 17 - In another experiment, you place a layer of this...Ch. 17 - To measure the specific heat in the liquid phase...
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