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Chruser 2003-11-09 03:45 PM

Basic thermophysics question
 
This shouldn't be too difficult, I just can't get it right for some reason.

"An old bathtub has a hot water tap, and a cold water tap. The hot water tap can be used to fill the whole bathtub up with 78 ºC-water in 13 minutes. The cold water tap can fill the bathtub tab up with 10 ºC-water in 19 minutes. What's the final temperature going to be, if both the hot and cold water taps are used simultaneously until the bathtub is full?"

Water has the heat capacity 4180 J/(kg*K) just in case you don't remember. Anyway, the only thing I could think of was to add the times it takes to fill up the bathtub together, then dividing the individual times with those values to get a percentage-value, but it didn't provide an accurate result either for the end temperature.

Thanatos 2003-11-09 03:54 PM

1 apple.

F*ck! I donno.

Demosthenes 2003-11-09 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chruser
This shouldn't be too difficult, I just can't get it right for some reason.

"An old bathtub has a hot water tap, and a cold water tap. The hot water tap can be used to fill the whole bathtub up with 78 ºC-water in 13 minutes. The cold water tap can fill the bathtub tab up with 10 ºC-water in 19 minutes. What's the final temperature going to be, if both the hot and cold water taps are used simultaneously until the bathtub is full?"

Water has the heat capacity 4180 J/(kg*K) just in case you don't remember. Anyway, the only thing I could think of was to add the times it takes to fill up the bathtub together, then dividing the individual times with those values to get a percentage-value, but it didn't provide an accurate result either for the end temperature.

i wouldve used the same method as u would but i have no idea of the proper method 2 do it


i have no idea...but 50.375?!?!?!

Sovereign 2003-11-09 05:38 PM

And thats basic!?!?

LordZpider 2003-11-09 07:40 PM

thermophysics sounds so scarey, just call it chemsitry, cuz that's what it is! :-P

RoboticSilence 2003-11-09 08:03 PM

GUess I have to actually learn thermophysics... brb real quick.

Grav 2003-11-09 08:18 PM

Tank will now upload it into his brain..

OmniFalcon 2003-11-09 10:24 PM

I just saw The Matrix Reloaded. My brother had bought it for me. Great movie!

Now, about the thermophysics...





I wish I could be of some assistance, but I have yet to pass Biology 1, which is only one of the many required science classes.


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