The __________ of a house blocks air from moving between the inside of the house and the outside and holds the conditioned (heated or cooled) air in the house.

a. floor
b. basement
c. roof
d. air barrier


d. air barrier

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According to the 2010/2011 Computer Crime and Security Survey, ____ is "the most commonly seen attack, with 67.1 percent of respondents reporting it."

A. denial-of-service B. malware infection C. unauthorized access D. inappropriate use

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A house will have a countertop cook unit rated at 5 kW and a built-in oven rated at 7 kW. Both will be connected to the same branch circuit and be located in the same room. What is the load used to calculate the branch circuit rating?

What will be an ideal response?

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. In the bubbler system, the pressure required to bubble air through the pipe is directly proportional to the ____________________ of the liquid.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Assume that the slotted encoder shown in Figure P14.5 has a length of 1 m and a total of 1,000 slots (i.e., there is one slot per millimeter). If a counter is incremented by 1 each time a slot goes past a sensor, design a digital counting system that determines the speed of the moving encoder (in meters per second).

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