How does a catalyst increase the rate of a reaction?

If a refrigerator is a heat pump that follows the first law of thermodynamics, how much heat was removed from food inside of the refrigerator if it released 380j of energy to the room?

Object a has a length of 3 cm, a width of 2 cm, and a height of 4 cm. object b is dropped into a graduated cylinder. it displaces 19 ml of water. the volume of object a is: a: greater than the volume of object b b: less than the volume of object b c: equal to the volume of object b

Light from two different sources are incident upon the same side of a polarizing filter. light from one source is polarized with total intensity ip, while light from the other source is unpolarized with total intensity iu. as you rotate the polarizing filter through 360 degrees, the intensity of the transmitted light on the other side varies by a factor of 9. what is the relative intensity of the initial polarized source to the unpolarized source, or ip/iu?