Loss Definition and 793 Threads

Hi all. I'm starting my college apps and started with MIT. Here's the prompt: "Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation?(*) (200-250 words)." Below is my response. What I want to know...

Homework Statement A particle of mass ##m_1## experienced a perfectly elastic collision with a stationary particle of mass ##m_2##. What fraction of the kinetic energy does the striking particle lose, if it recoils at right angles to its original motion direction. (Ans: ##2m_1/(m_1+m_2)## )...

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Mars current atmosphere is 0.006 bar. It is theorized that the atmosphere was thicker in the past possibly thicker than Earths 1 bar atmosphere. There are many processes that could have done this such as having no magnetic field, lack of geological activity, a planetoid crashing into it and...

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If I throw a ball vertically upwards from the surface of the earth, the upward motion slows due to gravity. At the ball's highest point, I have placed a repositioned platform for the ball to rest on; so it sits motionless, perched above the surface of the earth. When the ball began it's...

Dear all, Please tell me the steps are used to find Modal loss factor of composite constrained layer damped beam by using Finite Element software such as ANSYS etc.

1. Homework Statement a) Calculate the theoretical diameter of pipe, nominal pipe diameter and mean velocity of nominal pipe diameter. Maximum velocity = 1.8m/s Q(vol. flow rate) = 0.01M^3-1 b) Find the Reynolds number for the process and then the head loss due to friction, state any...

A single photon approaches a polarization filter. It's orientation is described by a probability amplitude wave function. It is not reflected or absorbed, but passes through the filter. Now it's orientation immediately after is definitely known. Question 1: is there no...

Homework Statement I have a manufacturing plant, and I know the material/thickness of every wall and the roof. I want to estimate the plant as an empty box, where I know the surface area of each material surrounding the box (ex. 4000 sq ft concrete, 1000 sq ft of windows, 1000 sq ft of xyz...

I am new to the forum. I was calculating the force losses in a seat belt pretensioner. Here is the question. A cylindrical plastic rod is pushed on one side at a force of 6367.2 N inside a metal tube. Find the energy loss (force loss or final force or output force) due to the compression of...

Homework Statement Share market trading calculator. I have tried to write code to calculate the buy and sell with profit/loss on historical data using moving averages. I'm am not interested in leverage yet. bank = 10000 equity = 10000 sell = is current price of an instrument on the...

I found this sizing chart for ventilation ducts. Notice the gray area for what I suppose is the accepted pressure loss area. What I wonder is why it changes as the sizes pass Ø800. From here on the upper pressure loss limit goes down to 0,7 Pa/m. Is this because of velocity issues or something else?

I'm looking for the general formula for Angular Momentum radiated away from quadrupolar electromagnetic radiation. I searched the usual books (Jackson, Landau-Lifchitz, ...) and just found the usual dipolar contributions. Using dimensional analysis and energy radiated away, I found this...

Hi, i just perfomed a differential distillation experiment, the initial solution cointaned ethanol-water solution with 4.9% in mass it weighted 399.63g Water Mass:381.25 Ethanol Mass:19.96 We distilliled the solution for 20 minutes and obtained two solutions, the distilled had 35.87g and the...

When we have ethanol on our skin it feels colder than when we have water on our skin. The explanation given was that more energy is required to turn one molecule of liquid ethanol to gaseous ethanol than for one molecule of liquid water. However, in that case won't more of the water evaporate...

Hi all, it might be a silly question, but my math is "a bit" rusty. I want to find the equation of the volume lost during the dissolution of a sphere particle as function of time: A=area of sphere V=volume of sphere t=time k=dissolution rate as volume dissolved over area time...

Hi guyss~ I need some help for one of my assignment about heat loss from a cone shape fin as we can see through the picture I've attached with this thread. Looking forward to all of your answers

I have a friend who told me they are interested in this new weight loss product. I am always highly skeptical of such products, but the friend said she knows someone who lost 6lbs in two weeks without changing anything else. Anything in here that looks promising or is this more fools...

Homework Statement A trolley is of mass 20kg is pushed 35 metres up an inclined plane (to a height of 10m above ground level). The inclined plane is at arcsin(2/7) to the horizontal. A 100N force pushes the trolley to the top of the plane, the force being parallel to the inclined plane. The...

Homework Statement I am working on a project where I have to design and size an aquifer. There are two which either store hot or cold water for 6 months which is then pumped up to be used in either the summer or winter. The aquifer is going to be 80 meters under the ground. The rest is...

Hey! I need to calculate the flow pressure drop inside a two dimensional diffuser (please see image below). The average flow velocity at the inlet is 0.095 m/s. The fluid is air at a temperature T=373K . I can't find any close model at any fluid dynamics handbook. Does anyone know how can I...

I work for a manufacturing company. We want to make some improvements to our compressed air system, but we want to establish a baseline of our current efficiency for cost justifications, etc. One planned improvement, is redesigning our current piping layout. We spoke with a consultant who wants...

I have an Altronix AL600ULX power supply which will output 24VDC and is rated for a maximum of 6A. I want to have this power supply activate a locking mechanism which is located several hundred feet away. I have already purchased 18AWG cable to connect the locking mechanism to the power...

Homework Statement On a clear night the Earth loses heat according the equation \frac{dQ}{dt} = \sigmaAT4 If the average temperature of the ground is 10°C, calculate the rate of heat loss, per square metre, by the Earth and the total heat lost, per square metre, in one hour. Homework...

Greetings All, I have a question regarding Pressure Loss through a Small hole vs Time. My simplified scenario is that I have a vessel filled with Sea Water Pressured up to 70 bar. At the outlet valve, there is a pressure release port of 5mm dia which is able to relieve the pressure down...

Problem: The fission of ^{235}_{92}U releases approximately 200 MeV. What percentages of the orginal mass of ^{235}_{92}U + n disappears? Solution: Using E=mc^2 we can estimate the amount of mass m converted into energy E. Solving for m we get, m=E/c^2=[(2 x 10^8 eV)(1.60 x 10^-19...

Could someone please check my answers so far for this question as its getting very messy so I'm not sure if I've made a mistake :/ [FONT=verdana]Two particles of masses 2m and m are moving along the x−axis with constant velocities u1i and u2i...

Homework Statement Show that the exponential distribution has the memory loss property. Homework Equations f_T(t) = \frac{1}{\beta}e^{-t/\beta} The memory loss property exists if we can show that P(X>s_1+s_2|X>s_1) = P(X>s_2) Where...

Does a DC transmission line for a given amount of power, do better at higher voltage? I know power is the product of the Voltage and current. The logic given to me by one of my peers was that I2R losses are less if the current is low. And so for a given power, it would imply V to be higher...

http://www1.gantep.edu.tr/~physics/media/kunena/attachments/382/chapter2.pdf On page 9 and 10 of the above PDF the method for deriving the fractional energy loss per cycle in a lightly damped oscillator is described. I understand and follow this derivation. What would the derivation...

Homework Statement Hey everyone, trying to finish up a report and having a problem with getting to the final answer. It is a final report on hydro kinetic energy. We are planning to install a hydro kinetic turbine under a bridge and calculate what the energy output would be in KW. I am...

Firstly my knowledge of science is armchair tv level so any overly complicated explanations will be lost on me. What is going on it terms energy conservation with the casimir effect. As I understand it virtual particles created outside the plates have a greater range of wavelengths than...

Homework Statement In Australia, New South Wale's final year of high school, a common question is asking something like: How does distributing electricity at high voltages reduce power loss in the transmission lines.Homework Equations P = VI = (I^2)R = (V^2)/R. Not very clear without...

Hello, I am studying transformers now for the exam and I came across this question. It made a confusion in my mind. I took the photo of the question and put it into attachment. The answers B and C looks very similar to each other and in my humble opinion both of them are true. I would be...

Homework Statement Given the reaction: 2LiHCO_3 + SiO_2 \rightarrow Li_{2}CO_3 + SiO_2 + CO_2 + H_{2}O where SiO_2 is unaffected, the mass of the 2LiHCO_3 + SiO_2 is 9.62 g. and Li_{2}CO_3 + SiO_2 is 6.85 g., find: a) mass loss due to CO_2 + H_{2}O b) mass of LiHCO_3 in the original...

Hello all, Considering that Einstein told us that E=mc2, that means that any energy is generated at a cost of mass loss? to be more specific: When a power plant generates energy by burning gas or coal, a part of the particles in the fuel burned simply disappear and can't be found in the...

The following is the advancement of what I discussed in the link https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4274966#post4274966 Problem Statement To calculate Pump Discharge Pressure, Calculate the wattage for the pump Data : Water @ 85 Degree C Flow in for 24” pipe : 3010...

I have and as I said, I am on some version of the diet myself, though not for weight loss purposes. In rankings of Diets *generally* Atkins rates very low. The weight loss effects from Atkins are mostly due to the fact that carb restriction is a good way to lower calories. So it amounts to a...

I have three grid tie inverters connected to my grid thru standard AC plugs. The system pushes about 1kw to the grid during the day but during the night they draw a total of 45 watts from the grid. This has been confirmed by measuring the ac current in the ac cord with a multimeter and with a...

I have head loss (25.95ft) and converted that to pressure (17.19psi). I am trying to find flow rate in 3" sch 80 pipe coming from railcar at 25psi. So outlet pressure is 7.813psi. The fluid is 50% Caustic soda.

Hi, A current carrying wire creates a magnetic field around it, as shown here: http://courses.ae.utexas.edu/ase463q/design_pages/fall02/wavelet/3_sour8.gif As far as I am aware this usually doesn’t cause a power loss. Even if there is a flux on a nearby conductor there will be no power loss...

1. Problem Statement Transform equation 1 into equation 2 to show they're equivalent. Homework Equations *Please note that I added a subscript to each variable indicating the units. The Attempt at a Solution The highlighted constant shown in my attempt at the solution is...

Homework Statement The energy density (energy per unit area per unit time) arriving from the sun at the surface of the Earth is 1300 J/m2s. Calculate the mass loss of the sun in one year. (The Earth is about 1.49 x 1011 m from the sun.) Homework Equations ΔE = Δmc2 KE = (γ-1)mc2 The...

Considering the vibrational damping of bubble wrap. My basic premise is that there are three main contributors to the damping effect: 1) Surface tension of the sheet structure and the bubbles themselves when subject to applied force causes dissipation of force away from applied direction 2) The...

I need some help!My problem is a problem of moving boundary with loss of mass... I started to use COMSOL and I need to simulate one plate with a hole on the center. And this hole is increasing with the time according to one equation (like a velocity, in m/s) which depend of the stress. Someone...

Hello, I'm working on a project at which a large amount of current is being passed through a low voltage system (48 Volts). In one part of the system, there are connectors rated at 12 Volts in which the 48 volt DC current is passed through. How much power loss might I be suffering here...

I have a lab in which a moving marble collides with a still one. What changes could I make to reduce the amount of kinetic energy loss in the collision? The track for the marbles is a piece of card stock paper. I was thinking: -Use two tubes as a track which will reduce the amount of...

reversal of hearing loss reversing/curing hearing loss Sensorineural Hearing Loss moe & holycow1, since you made these queries, recent research suggests certain types of hearing loss is reversible; specifically sensorineural (that has resulted in senescence of receptor hair cells in the...

In any common chemical reaction that releases energy, say the reaction 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O, what mass is converted to energy via the E = MC2 equation? What sub-atomic particles are converted to energy during ordinary chemical reactions? I was taught us in HS and under-grad chemistry classes that...