Carnot Engine
Carnot Engine: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Carnot Cycle, Carnot's Engine, Carnot Theorem, Efficiency of Carnot Cycle, Work Done in Compression, Work Done in Expansion, Compression in Carnot Cycle and, Expansion in Carnot Cycle
Important Questions on Carnot Engine
Even Carnot engine cannot give efficiency because we cannot

According to Carnot’s theorem, all heat engines operating between a given constant temperature source and sink, none has a _____ efficiency than a reversible engine.

The efficiency of all reversible heat engines operating between the same heat reservoirs is :

Irrespective of the operation details, every Carnot engine is efficient between two heat reservoirs.


calculate the work done on the gas in carnot cycle during compression.

Isothermal compression in Carnot cycle happened at _____.

The correct sequence of the processes taking place in a carnot cycle is


A carnot engine has an efficiency of .Its efficiency is to be increased to .By what must the temperature of the source be increased if the sink is at ?

The Carnot cycle of a reversible heat engine consists of two isothermal and two _____ processes.

A cyclic heat engine does 50kJ of work per cycle. If efficiency of engine is 75%, the heat rejected per cycle will be

In the Carnot cycle, there are a total of 4 processes which take place?

An engine operates by taking a monoatomic ideal gas through the cycle shown in the figure. The percentage efficiency of the engine is close to _____.

An ideal heat engine exhausting heat at is to have a efficiency. It must take the heat at:

The temperatures and of heat reservoirs in the ideal Carnot engine are and respectively. If increases by , the efficiency of the engine in percentage is

A Carnot engine absorbs of heat energy from a reservoir at and rejects of heat during each cycle, then the temperature of sink is

Assertion For given source and sink temperatures efficiency of Carnot's engine is .
Reason For given source and sink temperatures efficiency of Carnot's engine is maximum.

A system undergoes a cyclic process in which it absorbs heat and gives out heat. The efficiency of the process is and work done is . Select the correct statement.

Efficiency of carnot engine is (input temperature , exhaust temperature )
