A cylindrical wire of radius 2.0 mm carries a current of 2.5 A. The potential difference between points on the wire that are 46 m apart is 3.7 V

(a) What is the electric field in the wire? (b) What is the resistivity of the material of which the wire is made?


a) 0.080 V/m
b) 4.0 × 10-7 ? ? m

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GIVEN
? Nucleate pool boiling of water on clean copper
? Pressure = 3 atm
? Water temperature (Tw) = 390°C
Find
? The peak heat flux (q"max)
ASSUMPTIONS
? Steady state
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What will be an ideal response?

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