What is meant by the term useful work done by a machine?

There are two routes similar in terrain; however, one route has an incline of approximately 28 degrees, and you must decide on which route to take. what is the maximum road grade that your fully loaded ecv can climb?

At an oceanside nuclear power plant, seawater is used as part of the cooling system. this raises the temperature of the water that is discharged back into the ocean. the amount that the water temperature is raised has a uniform distribution over the interval from 10° to 25° c. what is the standard deviation of the temperature increase?

In the first law of thermodynamics, triangle e=q-w, what does q stand for