Container Definition and 347 Threads

A container with a hole in the bottom is filled with water. As the container is raised, water flows through the hole; thus the mass of the water in the container decreases. What is total potential energy of the water and water container over a specific time period as water escapes the container...

I understand that as temperature increases the volume of the container will also rise. Due to the particles having more KE and coming in contact with the container walls more frequently and with more force. My question is.. why isn't the inverse true? When you decrease the volume of the...

25g of ice frozen at -15 degrees C is combined with an unknown volume of steam at 200 degress C in an adiabatic container one wall of which is an adiabatic frictionless and weightless piston. Initial pressure in the container equals constant external pressure of 1 bar. CALCULATE the volume of...

Homework Statement The average coefficient of volume expansion for carbon tetrachloride is 5.81*10-4 (°C)-1. If a 49.0 gal steel container is filled completely with carbon tetrachloride when the temperature is 10.0°C, how much will spill over when the temperature rises to 27.0°C...

Homework Statement Suppose you have a quantity of water with a volume measurement of 1,535 +/- 10 ml. This quantity of water is to be transferred into a regular orthogonal container whose interior dimensions measure 15.0 +/- 0.1 cm long, 10.0 +/- 0.1 cm wide, and 10.0 +/- 0.1 cm deep. If you...

Homework Statement An aluminum bottle weighs 10 kg when empty and has an internal volume of 20 liters. It is filled with 5 kg of propane (C3H8) at 24 °C. The aluminum bottle is rated for a maximum pressure of 35 bar at which point a relief valve is opened. a) What are the initial...

Hey physics forum, My name is Lawrence and I have a crazy idea, i want to create a vacuum container (as close to space as POSSIBLE). then I want to fill it with equal parts of the pure elemental gases. I know this might be impossible but if anyone knows away to build a containment field...

Conversion from grams/liter to volume of the container I have a problem that need your help. This is not my homework, it is a friend of my who needs to solve this for his project. Here is the description below: The product is in powder form (like baking soda). The label weight of the...

I need help designing a mechanism for quickly releasing water through a tiny hole on one end of a thin cylindrical pole by a switch/button/etc on the other end. I have thought of one way to do this and drew an illustration, which is in the attachment. But I'm not sure if when the bar is covering...

In case you have never heard of the elephant toothpaste experiment, take a look at this: http://www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/elephant-toothpaste.html" I was just wondering, if you put the chemicals together in an air tight container, would the air pressure increase?

Isn’t the act of a vacuum to exert all possible mass whilst maintaining the structure the vacuum resides in?

Homework Statement A rectangular storage container with an open top is to have a volume of 10 m^3. The length of this base is twice the width. Material for the base costs $10 per square meter. Material for the sides costs $6 per square meter. Find the cost of materials for the cheapest such...

Hi all, for a closed container with water under pressure in it, let's say GAUGE PRESSURE of the container is 101 kPa, what will the boiling point of water in that vessel be? Will it be 100 deg C, or will it be 120 deg C because the ABSOLUTE PRESSURE of the water in that vessel is 202kPa...

1. You have a container of 3300 cm^3. Half of it is diatomic oxygen and half is monotonic helium. Pressure is 17 atm and temperature is 25 degrees C. How many molecules of each substance are in it? 2. PV = 2/3 N(1/2 mv^2) -> PV = 2/3 N (K) -> N = 1.5 PV/K K_monotonic = 3/2kT = 3/2...

I have to set up a differential equation for a leaking cylindrical container that is being refilled at a constant rate. Its leaking from the bottom, refilled from the top, and starts empty. Wondered if someone could check if what i have done so far is right..? h=height of water A=cylinder...

I want to launch an eraser through the air and it should land inside a garbage can 10 meters away from the launch site and it will be laying at a 30 degree angle to the ground. i need to use a combustion chamber made out of a container (max 65 mL), i need to use fuel, a sparker , an eraser...

Hello all, Consider the following scenario: I have a pipe entirely filled with water flowing through it due to a pump at one end pressurising the fluid. Imagine that underwater, I trap some of the flowing water in a capsule, completely filling the capsule with water, and then closing the...

1. At 100C the rms speed of nitrogen molecules is 576 m/s. Nitrogen at 100C and a pressure of 2.0 atm is held in a container with a 10cm x 10cm square wall. 2. N_coll / deltaT = 0.5(N/V)*A*v_x 3. I know that I have to use v_rms/3 = v_x = 192 m/s, and the area will be 0.01 m^2. Is...

Homework Statement A lost shipping container is found resting on the ocean floor and completely submerged. The container is 6.3 m long, 2.1 m wide, and 2.6 m high. Salvage experts attach a spherical balloon to the top of the container and inflate it with air pumped down from the surface...

Homework Statement A container has a large cylindrical lower part with a long thin cylindrical neck. The lower part of the container holds 12.5 m3 of water and the surface area of the bottom of the container is 4.68 m2. The height of the lower part of the container is h1 = 3.30 m and the neck...

how much time does it takes to heat a container or diameter 20 cms

Homework Statement My has is having a in-class project and I want to be prepared for it. The objective is to build an egg container, as fragile and possible, meaning that it will hold the egg strong and prevent it from cracking. How this project is evaluated is by throwing the egg container...

1. A container of uniform cross-sectional area A is filled with liquid of uniform density rho. Consider a thin horizontal layer of liquid (thickness dy) at a height y as measured from the bottom of the container. Let the pressure exerted upward on the bottom of the layer be p and the pressure...

Hey guys, I guess I should mention first that I am not a student I had something in mind I would like to try but have very little experience with electrical components. I also do not have the best knowledge base in electrical theory. Im trying to find a somewhat practical way to cause a...

My dad and I were having a discussion about filling a container with a 2 part mixture (50/50), draining off X amount of it and then refilling it with only 1 part of the mixture. For example: - Suppose we have a container that holds 10 gallons. We fill it with 5 gallons of water and 5 gallons...

Let's say i have a sealed container with half water, half air, and i would like the air pressure to remain constant. how can i get a water hose to pour into this sealed air container without having the air escape up the hose? Note* There is water leaving my container at the same rate it...

Homework Statement How many grams of 20 degree C water do I need to add to 100 grams of 80 degree C of water to get the final temperature down to 50 degrees C? Homework Equations I'm sure it's a pretty simple equation, but I don't know it. (I'm studying a lot of different things at once...

Homework Statement Electrical current is passed through a resistor immersed in a liquid in an adiabatic container. The temperature of the liquid is varied by 1 degree Celcius. The system consists solely of the liquid. Does heat or work flow across the boundary between the system and...

I have a plastic Gatorade type bottle that I reuse. Between uses, I fill it with hot water and shake, and then empty it. Once I empty it, if I put the lid on and wait, the bottle eventually deforms and sucks in on itself. Then when I remove the lid it returns to normal. Why does it deform? Is...

This is an oversimplification of a practical problem I am currently trying to design for. Suppose, we have a very long cylinder closed at both ends which contains water at a given pressure P1 and temperature T1. P1 and T1 are such that water is in a compressed state (subcooled). One end of...

Hello, this is my first post, i hope somebody can help me. I have searched for the answer myself all over on the web and here, but I am stuck. Im trying to work out the maximum pressure (psi) that i can get into an aluminium cylinder that's 80mm wide and 250mm tall and 4mm thick ive found...

Homework Statement This is Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics, problem 5.4 A cylindrical container 80 cm long is separated into two compartments by a thin piston, originally clamped in position 30 cm from the left end. The left compartment is filled with 1 mole of helium gas at a...

Homework Statement A container has a vertical height of 1m, a circular base with radius 1m and a circular top with radius 2m. Use a triple integral and spherical coordinates to evaluate the volume of the container. 2. The attempt at a solution If we set up the problem so that the centre of...

Homework Statement The air temperature and pressure in a laboratory are 22°C and 1.3 atm. A 2.05 L container is open to the air. The container is then sealed and placed in a bath of boiling water. After reaching thermal equilibrium, the container is open. How many moles of air escape...

Homework Statement A hole is punched at a height h in the side of a container of height h0 = 1.15 cm. The container is full of water, as shown in the figure below. If the water is to shoot as far as possible horizontally, how far from the bottom of the container should the hole be punched...

Help with STL container list for INformation Manager! I'm trying to create a info manager like rolodex. Rolodex.cpp List() function void Rolodex::List() { list<string>::iterator cIterator; for (cIterator = cardlist.begin(); cIterator != cardlist.end(); ++cIterator) {...

Homework Statement A hole is punched in the side of an 20 cm tall container full of water. To maximize horizontal distance of the water, how far from the bottom of the container should the hole be punched? Homework Equations ?? \Deltay = v0t + .5at2 The Attempt at a Solution This...

Hi all. I am stuck at this question for quite some time. Not really sure on how to go about solving it. Please help! Thanks in advance. Two uniform 77.4-g marbles 2.23 cm in diameter are stacked as shown in the figure in a container that is 2.70 cm wide. a) Find the force that the...

I have an orange tree growing in a pot, and lately the soil has been getting some yellow growth of some sort on it. I can't seem to find anything about it in any of my books. The plant doesn't appear to be adversely affected. Any ideas what it is? Is it a problem? Will it spread to my other...

Does Bernoulli's Principle affect a non-flowing fluid in a moving container? As in, if I am in an air-sealed airplane at rest, and then the plane accelerates on the ground (but does not fly), does the gas pressure inside the plane change because the fluid (air inside the cabin) has a velocity...

Hello, my tutor told me the answer to this questions went beyond the scope of the course. We are taught that according to Le Chatelier principle, a system at equilibrium compensates a changement of pressure by shifting towards products or reactants and thus changing the number of molecules...

Homework Statement (a) Shedz buys its trays in pallets by the container load. As each container arrives, n trays are examined to assess whether or not the load of trays is of acceptable quality. The load is accepted if there is no more than one defective tray in the sample. (i) For two...

A partition separates the two compartments of a vessel. The vessel is submerged in a constant temperature bath at 200C. Compartment A contains 2.00 kg of water at 200C, 50.00 bar and compartment B contains 0.983 kg of water at 200C, 1.00 bar. The partition is removed and the water in both...

How can I calculate the air-supply flow (q=cfm) needed to maintain, say, p=50 psi of pressure in a (quasi-rigid) cylinder with a Volume of V=30,000 cft, when this cylinder has an open gap (leak) 50 ft long (L=50 ft) and 1/8 inch wide (w=1/8 inch)? Is there a simple formula I can use to...

I'm trying to determine the internal volume of a container using the ideal gas law principle. 1. A container of known volume is pressurized with air to some known value relative to ambient. 2. The container of unknown volume is vented to ambient. 3. Temperature is constant for all air...

Homework Statement At 258°C, Kp = 2.9 x 10^-3 atm3 for the following reaction. NH4OCONH2(s) <--> 2 NH3(g) + CO2(g) In an experiment carried out at 258°C, a certain amount of NH4OCONH2 is placed in an evacuated rigid container and allowed to come to equilibrium. Calculate the total...

Consider an isolated system of two ideal, identical gases in thermal equilibrium. Gas A is occupying a volume A, separated by a wall from volume B, where gas B resides. They are in thermal contact. The volumes are the same, so are the pressures and temperatures, and it follows that the number of...

Homework Statement A student left some alkyl halides (RCI and RBr) in an open container for several hours. What happened to the composition of the halide mixture during that time? Assume that some liquid remains in the container. Homework Equations From...

If you did had a container that was strong enough to resist the expansive forces generated as the water in it freezes, what would happen? (assuming the container is filled completely with water) Thanks for any answers in advance, and I hope this post is in the correct place, if not, then sorry!

Homework Statement I have to do an experiment for my english class: I have to use two or more containers of same size and shape and punch holes in the bottoms of these containers. The holes should vary in size and number for the different containers. Then I have to fill the containers with...