A student wishes to conduct an investigation on heat transfer that demonstrates convection, Which method should the student use?

A.
Pour hot, colored water into a bowl of cooler water that is another color,
B.
Melt chocolate bars in a microwave at different settings,
C.
Leave a glass of ice water outside in the direct sunshine.
D.
Place a spoon that is room temperature on top of a hot burner on a stove,

The extremely high temperatures needed to trigger nuclear fusion are proposed to be generated by laser irradiating a spherical pellet of deuterium and tritium fuel of diameter 1.8 mm. (a) determine the maximum fuel temperature that can be achieved by irradiating the pellet with 200 lasers, each producing a power of 550 w. the pellet has an absorptivity 0.3 and emissivity 0.8.

To do work, this truck uses energy stored in chemical fuel and an electrical battery. how much total energy does this truck put out?

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.