Suppose you take a piece of hard wax from an unlit candle. After you roll the wax between your fingers for a while, it becomes soft. What state of matter is the softer wax? Is it possible for the wax to change without changing state?

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.

Amichelson interferometer operating at a 600 nm wavelength has a 3.02-cm-long glass cell in one arm. to begin, the air is pumped out of the cell and mirror m2 is adjusted to produce a bright spot at the center of the interference pattern. then a valve is opened and air is slowly admitted into the cell. the index of refraction of air at 1.00 atm pressure is 1.00028.how many bright-dark-bright fringe shifts are observed as the cell fills with air?

Acommercial refrigerator with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid is used to keep the refrigerated space at -35°c by rejecting waste heat to cooling water that enters the condenser at 18°c at a rate of 0.25 kg/s and leaves at 26°c. the refrigerant enters the condenser at 1.2 mpa and 50°c. if the compressor consumes 3.3 kw of power, determine (a) the mass flow rate of the refrigerant, (b) the refrigeration load, (c) the cop, and (d) the minimum power input to the compressor for the same refrigeration load.