Essential University Physics, Volume 1 and Volume 2 - With Access
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Ch. 17.1 - If you double the kelvin temperature of a gas,...Ch. 17.2 - You bring a pot of water to boil and then forget...Ch. 17.3 - The figure shows a donut-shaped object. If its...Ch. 17 - Prob. 1FTDCh. 17 - According to the ideal-gas law, what should be the...Ch. 17 - Prob. 3FTDCh. 17 - The average speed of the molecules in a gas...Ch. 17 - Suppose you start running while holding a closed...Ch. 17 - Prob. 6FTDCh. 17 - Your roommate claims that ice and snow must be at...
Ch. 17 - Whats the temperature of water just under the ice...Ch. 17 - Ice and water have been together in a glass for a...Ch. 17 - Which takes more heat: melting a gram of ice...Ch. 17 - The atmospheres of relatively low-mass planets...Ch. 17 - The triple point of water defines a precise...Ch. 17 - How is it possible to have boiling water at a...Ch. 17 - How does a pressure cooker work?Ch. 17 - Suppose mercury and glass had the same coefficient...Ch. 17 - A bimetallic strip consists of thin pieces of...Ch. 17 - Marss atmospheric pressure is about 1% that of...Ch. 17 - Prob. 18ECh. 17 - Whats the pressure of an ideal gas if 3.5 mol...Ch. 17 - Prob. 20ECh. 17 - (a) If 2.0 mol of an ideal gas are initially at...Ch. 17 - A pressure of 1010 Pa is readily achievable with...Ch. 17 - Whats the thermal speed of hydrogen molecules at...Ch. 17 - In which gas are the molecules moving faster:...Ch. 17 - How much energy does it take to melt a 65-g ice...Ch. 17 - It takes 200 J to melt an 8.0-g sample of one of...Ch. 17 - If it takes 840 kJ to vaporize a sample of liquid...Ch. 17 - Carbon dioxide sublimes (changes from solid to...Ch. 17 - Find the energy needed to convert 28 kg of liquid...Ch. 17 - A copper wire is 20 m long on a winter day when...Ch. 17 - You have exactly 1 L of ethyl alcohol at room...Ch. 17 - A Pyrex glass marble is 1.00000 cm in diameter at...Ch. 17 - At 0C, the hole in a steel washer is 9.52 mm in...Ch. 17 - Suppose a single piece of welded steel railroad...Ch. 17 - Prob. 35PCh. 17 - Prob. 36PCh. 17 - A compressed air cylinder stands 100 cm tall and...Ch. 17 - Youre a lawyer with an unusual case. A...Ch. 17 - A 3000-mL flask is initially open in a room...Ch. 17 - The recommended treatment for frostbite is rapid...Ch. 17 - A stove burner supplies heat to a pan at the rate...Ch. 17 - If a 1-megaton nuclear bomb were exploded deep in...Ch. 17 - Youre winter camping and are melting snow for...Ch. 17 - Prob. 44PCh. 17 - A refrigerator extracts energy from its contents...Ch. 17 - Climatologists have recently recognized that black...Ch. 17 - Repeat Example 17.4 with an initial ice mass of 50...Ch. 17 - How much energy does it take to melt 10 kg of ice...Ch. 17 - Water is brought to its boiling point and then...Ch. 17 - Prob. 50PCh. 17 - Whats the minimum amount of ice in Example 17.4...Ch. 17 - A bowl contains 16 kg of punch (essentially water)...Ch. 17 - A 50-g ice cube at 10C is placed in an equal mass...Ch. 17 - Prob. 54PCh. 17 - What power is needed to melt 20 kg of ice in 6.0...Ch. 17 - You put 300 g of water at 20C into a 500-W...Ch. 17 - If 4.5 105 kg of emergency cooling water at 10C...Ch. 17 - Describe the composition and temperature of the...Ch. 17 - A glass marble 1.000 cm in diameter is to be...Ch. 17 - Prob. 60PCh. 17 - A steel ball bearing is encased in a Pyrex glass...Ch. 17 - Fuel systems of modern cars are designed so...Ch. 17 - A rod of length L0 is clamped rigidly at both...Ch. 17 - Prob. 64PCh. 17 - A solar-heated house stores energy in 5.0 tons of...Ch. 17 - Show that the coefficient of volume expansion of...Ch. 17 - Waters coefficient of volume expansion in the...Ch. 17 - When the expansion coefficient varies with...Ch. 17 - Ignoring air resistance, find the height from...Ch. 17 - The timekeeping of a grandfather clock is...Ch. 17 - Prob. 71PCh. 17 - Prob. 72PCh. 17 - Figure 17.12 shows an apparatus used to determine...Ch. 17 - Prob. 74PCh. 17 - (a) Show that, for an ideal gas, the speed of...Ch. 17 - The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, plotted in...Ch. 17 - At high gas densities, the van der Waals equation...Ch. 17 - Prob. 78PPCh. 17 - Prob. 79PPCh. 17 - Because some pathogens can survive 120C...Ch. 17 - Prob. 81PP
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