MAAE 3300 Midterm: Exam-MAAE3300-2008April

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Course: MAAE 3300
• Professor: All

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Department name & course number: mechanical & aerospace engineering maae 3300. Students must count the number of pages in this examination question paper before beginning to write, and report any discrepancy immediately to a proctor. This examination question paper may be taken from the examination room. A lava lamp is essentially a conical glass bottle with a light at the bottom which acts qs a heat source and two liquids (the visible lava and the less visible soapy water). During operation, the lamp warms the lava, causes it to expand and this change in the lava"s density causes it to break free of the bottom and buoyantly float upwards as a drop. The time between leaving the bottom of the glass bottle as a drop and returning as a cooled-down drop is usually around 30 sec. when operating in steady state.