Which block has more thermal energy? if the blocks are placed in thermal contact, will the thermal engery of the blocks change?

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.

The average density of the planet uranus is 1.27 103 kg/m3. the ratio of the mass of neptune to that of uranus is 1.19. the ratio of the radius of neptune to that of uranus is 0.969. find the average density of neptune.

The amount of potential energy possessed by an elevated object is equal to what?