Homework #1

1. A Rocket is shot straight up. During the initial stages of flight it has an acceleration 7t meters/sec2. The engine cuts out at t = 10 sec. How high will the rocket go, neglecting air resistance? Approx Answer: 7.5 km 2. A thermometer, reading 15oC is brought into a room whose temperature is 23oC. One minute later the thermometer reading is 19oC. How long does it take until the reading is 22.9oC? Approx Answer: 6.3 min.

3. In the anaerobic fermentation of grain, the yeast digests glucose to form ethanol and propenoic acid by the following overall reactions: C6H12O6 -> 2C2H5OH + 2CO2 C6H12O6 -> 2C2H3CO2H + 2H2O In a reactor 3500 kg of a 12% glucose/water solution enters. During fermentation, 120 kg of carbon dioxide are produced together with 90 kg of unreacted glucose. What is the weight percent of propenoic acid that exits? Approx Answer: 1.9% 4. Three thousand cubic meters per day ofa gas mixture containing methane and n-butane at 21oC enters and absorber tower. The partial pressures at these conditions are 103 kPa for methane and 586 kPa for n-butane. In the absorber, 80% of the butane is removed and the remaining gas leaves the tower at 38oC and a total pressure of 550 kPa. What is the volumetric flow rate of gas at the exit? Approx Answer: 1300 m3 5. A person in a 4 m x 5 m x 5 m room forgets to turn off a 100 W fan before he leaves the room that is at 100 kPa and 30oC. What will the temperature be when he returns 5 hours later? Approx Answer: 45oC. 6. Solve the following equation for x = 0.5 and y(x=0)=0.47: cos + sin = 2

7. Determine the interval of time t in which a particle moves such that its distance s from a fixed point is measured positively, if = 20 24 + 9 +

8. A particle moves up and to the right along the parabola y2 = 8x. If it passes through the point (2, 4) with a speed of 2, how fast is it rising vertically at that point?

9. Sodium Hydroxide is usually produced from common salt by electrolysis. The essential elements of the system are shown below:

How much water must be evaporated per pound of product? 10. If CO at constant pressure was burned with excess air and the measured temperature of the exit gases was 981oC. What was the percentage of excess air used? The reactants entered at 93 oC.