In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a 3.0-m-tall, 5.0-m-diameter hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. the cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. then the floor on which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! if all goes well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide. clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the range 0.60 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to 0.70. what is the minimum rotational frequency, in rpm, for which the ride is safe?

An electric current is flowing through the cord below.what will happen to this current if a magnet is brought near the cord? a. the electric current will stop flowing. b. it will exert a force on the voltage. c. the resistance of the wire will decrease. d. it will exert a force on the electric current.

Astone is dropped from a cliff and falls 9.44 meters. what is the speed of the stone when it reaches the ground? a. 13.6 m/sec b. 1.39 m/sec c. 185 m/sec d. 9.80 m/sec

Air enters a gas turbine with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion at 100 kpa and 17°c. this system uses a regenerator as well as reheating and intercooling – the intercooler returns the air to the inlet temperature. the pressure ratio across each compressor is 4 ; 300 kj/kg of heat are added to the air in each combustion chamber; and the regenerator operates perfectly while increasing the temperature of the cold air by 20°c. determine the system’s thermal efficiency. assume isentropic operations for all compressor and the turbine stages and use constant specific heats at room temperature. (0.378)