Which one of the following statements best describes the particles in a gas? question 8 options: they are very close together and are able to vibrate. they are stationary and not able to vibrate they are moving very slow and are far apart. they are moving very fast and are far apart.

Which statement correctly describes a step-up transformer? a. it increases the amount of electric energy available. b. it increases the voltage of an electric current. c. it changes direct current into alternating current. d. it has more loops of wire in its primary coil.

Which statement is true? a. kepler's laws apply only to the motion of earth. b. kepler's laws can be used to predict eclipses. c. kepler's laws are true for a central force that is directly proportional to distance. d. kepler's laws can be deduced from newton's laws of motion and gravity.

Aheat engine running backward is called a refrigerator if its purpose is to extract heat from a cold reservoir. the same engine running backward is called a heat pump if its purpose is to exhaust warm air into the hot reservoir. heat pumps are widely used for home heating. you can think of a heat pump as a refrigerator that is cooling the already cold outdoors and, with its exhaust heat qh, warming the indoors. perhaps this seems a little silly, but consider the following. electricity can be directly used to heat a home by passing an electric current through a heating coil. this is a direct, 100% conversion of work to heat. that is, 19.0 \rm kw of electric power (generated by doing work at the rate 19.0 kj/s at the power plant) produces heat energy inside the home at a rate of 19.0 kj/s. suppose that the neighbor's home has a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of 4.00, a realistic value. note: with a refrigerator, "what you get" is heat removed. but with a heat pump, "what you get" is heat delivered. so the coefficient of performance of a heat pump is k=qh/win. an average price for electricity is about 40 mj per dollar. a furnace or heat pump will run typically 200 hours per month during the winter. what does one month's heating cost in the home with a 16.0 kw electric heater? what does one month's heating cost in the home of a neighbor who uses a heat pump to provide the same amount of heating?