Use the market's hhi and the ftc's historical guidelines for mergers to answer the following question: suppose the top five firms in a market have market shares of 20%,15%,15%, 5% and 5% respectively. the remaining 40 firms in the market each have a market share of 1%. would the ftc be likely to approve a merger between the top two firms in this market?

Amass of 1.5 kg of air at 120 kpa and 24°c is contained in a gas-tight, frictionless piston-cylinder device. the air is now compressed to a final pressure of 720 kpa. during the process, heat is transferred from the air such that the temperature inside the cylinder remains constant. calculate the boundary work input during this process.

Aloaded platform of total mass 500 kg is supported by a dashpot and by a set of springs of effective stiffness 72 kn/m. it is observed that when the platform is depressed through a distance x = 12.5 cm below its equilibrium position and then released without any initial velocity; it reaches its equilibrium position in the shortest possible time without overshoot. find the position and velocity of the loaded platform 0.10 sec. after its release. if a further load of 400 kg is added to the platform, find, i) the frequency of damped vibrations, and i) the amplitude of vibration after 2 complete oscillations, given that the initial amplitude is 15 cm.

Draw the engineering stress-strain curve for (a) bcc; (b) fcc metals and mark important points.