Monday, May 7, 2012

5/7

Objective:  SWBAT review for the AP test/final


Warm Up:  Pick up one packet.
A heat engine has an efficiency of 25% and extracts 120 J of heat from a hot reservoir per cycle. a) How much net work does it perform in each cycle? b)  How much heat does it exhaust in each cycle?

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

5/1

Happy May Day


Objective: SWBAT understand the relationship between density, volume, mass and the buoyant force.


Warm Up:  An aluminum object has a mass of 27.0 kg and a de4nsity of 2.70 x 10^3 kg/cubic m.  The object is attached to a string and immersed in a tank of water.  Determine the a) volume of the object and b) the tension in the string when it is completely immersed.