Double-pane windows have nitrogen gas or very dry air between the panes. Why is using ordinary air
Question:
Double-pane windows have nitrogen gas or very dry air between the panes. Why is using ordinary air between the panes a poor idea?
Step by Step Answer:
Visibility of the windows is imp...View the full answer
Conceptual Physical Science
ISBN: 978-0134060491
6th edition
Authors: Paul G. Hewitt, John A. Suchocki, Leslie A. Hewitt
Related Video
An air pump is a device used to inflate or deflate objects by moving air in or out of them. There are many different types of air pumps, ranging from manual hand pumps to electrically powered pumps, and they are used for a variety of purposes. John had trouble blowing up many balloons without a balloon pump and experienced pain. He solved this problem by using an empty plastic bottle with a rectangular-shaped hole in the cap, a cut piece of balloon stretched over it, and a small hole in the bottle. By pressing and releasing the bottle, he created an air pump to inflate the balloons without any discomfort. Air pumps utilize fluid mechanics and thermodynamics principles to increase air pressure inside an object being inflated, such as a bicycle tire. The ideal gas law is used to calculate the pressure inside the tire. As air pressure increases, the object becomes more rigid and can support more weight. The efficiency of the pump is determined by how much of the work done is converted into useful work, such as inflating the tire, and how much is lost as heat. Understanding these principles is important to effectively use and optimize the use of air pumps.
Students also viewed these Physics questions
-
Compute the ratio of the rate of heat loss through a single pane window with area 0.15 m2 to that fur a double-pane window with the same area. The glass of a single pane is 4.2 mm thick, and the air...
-
Nitrogen gas (N 2 ) reacts with hydrogen gas (H 2 ) to form ammonia gas (NH 3 ). You have nitrogen and hydrogen gases in a 15.0- L container fitted with a movable piston (the piston allows the...
-
In an experiment, 20.00 L of dry nitrogen gas, N2, at 20.0°C and 750.0 mmHg is slowly bubbled into water in a flask to determine its vapor pressure (see the figure below). The liquid water is...
-
Viola, Iona and Paula form a joint for the sale of merchandise. Iona and Paula are to contribute the merchandise, Viola is to act as the manager and is to be allowed a bonus of 25% of the profit...
-
One method for measuring the speed of sound uses standing waves. A cylindrical tube is open at both ends, and one end admits sound from a tuning fork. A movable plunger is inserted into the other end...
-
Use either indirect proof or conditional proof to derive the conclusions of the following symbolized arguments.
-
Consider the conditions of Problem 7.36, but now allow for radiation exchange between the surface of the heating element \((\varepsilon=0.8)\) and the walls of the duct, which form a large enclosure...
-
The following trial balance has been extracted from the books of Garswood as at 31 March 2010: Required: Prepare Garswood's trading and profit and loss account for the year to 31 March 2010 and a...
-
develop an FTE variance reporting document that will be used for department managers to explain variances in FTE utilization compared to benchmarks. Make sure to address how and when managers will be...
-
Delta Mountain Supplies has been in business for three months. The company was formed by two outdoor enthusiasts to produce high quality sleeping bags, which can used in all kinds of weather...
-
Erik Wong crunches an aluminum soft-drink. Is the can sucked in by the partial vacuum created, or pushed inward by atmospheric pressure? Or both?
-
Boiling can be brought about by increasing the temperature of water. How can boiling be brought about without increasing water temperature?
-
It is election time, and you are fact checking candidate April Weatherstone's factual claims. Let \(Y\) be the proportion of errors in Weatherstone's factual claims. Your estimate of \(Y\), after...
-
Christa Clothing International is a well-known international company headquartered in Blusen City, North Carolina in the United States. Christa specializes in fashion clothing for men and women. In...
-
Suppose the Vehicle class is defined to keep track of vehicles in a household. What kinds of instance data members, variables and constants, would be defined for such Vehicle objects? Do any useful...
-
Given two numbers, the largest divisor among all the integers that divide the two numbers is known as the greatest common divisor. For example, the positive divisors of 36 are \(1,2,3,4,6,9,12,18\),...
-
In 2009, after four decades of rapid growth, China surpassed the US to become the worlds largest car market in number of vehicles sold (Waldmeir, 2010a). China is currently the largest single market...
-
Determine the return value for each of these expressions, assuming the following declaration: String org; org = new String ("American Quarter Horse Association"); A. org.substring (5, 8) *B....
-
While the game mentioned above is aimed at women 2025, what other age and gender segments would be most likely to participate in online games?
-
The first law of thermodynamics is sometimes whimsically stated as, You cant get something for nothing, and the second law as, You cant even break even. Explain how these statements could be...
-
A system has the frequency response function Determine and accurately plot the following: (a) The amplitude response (b) The phase response (c) The phase delay (d) The group delay J2f (8+ 2f)(3+ j2f)...
-
Determine and accurately plot, on the same set of axes, the group delay and the phase delay for the systems with unit impulse responses: (a) h 1 (t) = 3e -5t u(t) (b) h 2 (t) = 5e -3t u (t) - 2e -5t...
-
An ideal quadrature phase shifter has frequency response function Find the outputs for the following inputs: (a) x 1 (t) = exp (j100Ït) (b) x 2 (t) = cos (100Ït) (c) x 3 (t) = sin...
-
A 9 Loan amount Annual interest rate Number of years until maturity Annual payment amount B $300,000.00 Date Graded Worksheet 7% 4 On January 1, 2024, a company borrows cash from a local bank by...
-
As we have seen in this course, virtually every generation has felt that the existing threat to its privacy was unprecedented in nature. That said, the sheer capacity to collect metadata which exists...
-
In 1982 the inflation rate hit 16%. Suppose that the average cost of a textbook in 1982 was $20. What was the expected cost in the year 2017 if we project this rate of inflation on the cost? (Assume...
Study smarter with the SolutionInn App