Soil can best be described as the
a. third layer beneath the earth's surface.
b. sandy bottom of the ocean's floor.
c. loose covering of weathered rocks and decaying organic matter.
d. layer of bedrock four layers beneath the earth's surface.

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.

What changes occur in the brain during the teenage years? 25 points, someone me out!a.) thinking becomes slower as the brain grows larger. b.) connections between neurons become stronger and faster. c.) unused neurons fuse together to form larger, better functioning neurons. d.) more neurons are developed.

Agraduated cylinder contains 63.0 ml of water. a piece of gold, which has a density of 19.3 g/ cm3, is added to the water and the volume goes up to 64.5 ml. calculate the mass in grams of the gold that was added to the water. explain how you got your answer.