[45 marks] Consider Ibra region where the installed solar panels cost on average 2 OMR /W. [10 marks] What is the cost to install a 5kW PV system for a residence?

[10 marks] If the solar irradiance in Ibra is on average 800W/m2 and the installed panels have efficiency of 18%. How many panels are required if the panel’s area is 2m2?

[15 marks] Assume Ibra has an average of 10 day-hours, dusty environment which causes the efficiency of the solar system to drop by 10% on average, and 30 cloudy days/year which cause the efficiency of the solar panels drops by 50%. If electrical power cost per kWh is 0.05 OMR determine the break-even time for the 5kW PV system.

[10 marks] If the system to be off-grid, what would be the backup time if three 12-V batteries were selected each with a capacity of 200Ah. Assume that you can discharge the batteries up to 80% of their capacities.​

If you touch a hot light bulb and get burned, that is an example of a. radiation b. convection c. conduction

There is a theory that indicates that dinosaurs became extinct when about 65 million years ago, a large asteroid hit the earth surface. dust caused by this collision blocked the sunlight reaching the earth's surface and many forms of life became extinct due to the cold. fearing this threat, how large the radius of an asteroid should you be looking for if the dangerous asteroid size is approximately the same as the one that killed the dinosaurs? available data suggests that about 18% of that asteroid's mass ended up as a dust spread evenly over earth after eventually settling out of the upper atmosphere. about 0.0180 g/cm^2 of dust, which is chemically different than the earth's rock, covered the earth's surface. typical asteroids have a density of about 1.9 g/cm^3. now that we know the size of the asteroid, how much energy was released during impact, assuming all of it was just the kinetic energy of the asteroid right before the impact?

Ablock of mass m = 2.5 kg is attached to a spring with spring constant k = 710 n/m. it is initially at rest on an inclined plane that is at an angle of θ = 23° with respect to the horizontal, and the coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the plane is μk = 0.19. in the initial position, where the spring is compressed by a distance of d = 0.16 m, the mass is at its lowest position and the spring is compressed the maximum amount. take the initial gravitational energy of the block as zero. a) what is the block's initial mechanical energy? b) if the spring pushes the block up the incline, what distance, l, in meters will the block travel before coming to rest? the spring remains attached to both the block and the fixed wall throughout its motion.