An electric hand mixer draws 1.5 amperes at 110 volts. It is used to mix 1 kg

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An electric hand mixer draws 1.5 amperes at 110 volts. It is used to mix 1 kg of cookie dough for 5 minutes. After mixing, the temperature of the cookie dough is found to have increased by 5°C. If the heat capacity of the dough is 4.2 kJ ⋅ kg−1⋅K−1, what fraction of the electrical energy used by the mixer is converted to internal energy of the dough? Discuss the fate of the remainder of the energy.

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Introduction To Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

ISBN: 9781259696527

8th Edition

Authors: J.M. Smith, Hendrick Van Ness, Michael Abbott, Mark Swihart

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