Which of the following scenarios will cause the current to stop flowing within a circuit?
a. the switch within the closed circuit is opened.
b. insulating materials within the circuit are replaced with conducting materials.
c. the circuit is closed.
d. a wire connected to the voltage source runs from the negative to the positive terminal

As part of an industrial process, air as an ideal gas at 10 bar, 400k expands at steady state through a valve to a pressure of 4 bar. the mass flow rate of air is 0.5 kg/s. the air then passes through a heat exchanger where it is cooled to a temperature of 295k with negligible change in pressure. the valve can be modeled as a throttling process, and kinetic and potential energy effects can be neglected. (a) for a control volume enclosing the valve and heat exchanger and enough of the local surroundings that the heat transfer occurs at the ambient temperature of 295 k, determine the rate of entropy production, in kw/k. (b) if the expansion valve were replaced by an adiabatic turbine operating isentropically, what would be the entropy production? compare the results of parts (a) and (b) and discuss.

Asquare 1m x 1m plate is shown below. all four of its edges are kept at 0 co. at t=0the temperature distribution is given by: y xtsins n75)=.a) using separation of variables determine the temperature distribution t(x, y,t)along the plate at any time t. b) discretize the heat conduction equation +=22222 txtusing a second-order centered difference scheme for the two second derivatives and a first-order forward euler scheme for the first derivative. using von neumann stability analysis, determine the stability criterion for the proposed discretization scheme in terms of , hand t. solve for the maximum allowable time step tmax

Three resistors are connected in series across a 15-v power supply. if the potential drops across resistors 1 and 2 are 4.1 volts and 3.1 volts, what is the exact potential drop (in volts) across resistor 3?