Why do surfers like water waves with high amplitudes

We found the centripetal acceleration of the earth as it revolves around the sun. compute the centripetal acceleration of a point on the surface of the earth at the equator caused by the rotation of the earth about its axis. (enter the magnitude. the radius of the earth is 6,371 km.)

Name three different units of energy used to measure heat and describe what type of situations each is usually used.

As part of an industrial process, air as an ideal gas at 10 bar, 400k expands at steady state through a valve to a pressure of 4 bar. the mass flow rate of air is 0.5 kg/s. the air then passes through a heat exchanger where it is cooled to a temperature of 295k with negligible change in pressure. the valve can be modeled as a throttling process, and kinetic and potential energy effects can be neglected. (a) for a control volume enclosing the valve and heat exchanger and enough of the local surroundings that the heat transfer occurs at the ambient temperature of 295 k, determine the rate of entropy production, in kw/k. (b) if the expansion valve were replaced by an adiabatic turbine operating isentropically, what would be the entropy production? compare the results of parts (a) and (b) and discuss.