Heat Engines

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Heat Engines: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Engines and Cyclic Process, Heat Engine, Efficiency in Thermodynamic Process and Efficiency of Heat Engine.

Important Questions on Heat Engines

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A diatomic ideal gas is used in a carnot engine as the working substance. If during the adiabatic expansion part of the cycle, the volume of the gas increases from V to 32 V, the efficiency of the engine is,

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A Carnot engine works between constant temperature T1 and T2 of source and sink, respectively. For efficiency to be greatest

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An ideal gas heat engine operates in a carnot cycle between 227°C and 127°C. It absorbs 6 kcal at the higher temperature. The amount of heat (in kcal) converted into work is equal to 

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Consider a Carnot cycle operating between source temperature 750 K and sink temperature 350 K producing 1.25 kJ of mechanical work per cycle, the heat transferred to the engine by the reservoirs

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The thermodynamic efficiency of cell is given by

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An ideal gas heat engine is operating between 227 °C and 127 °C. It absorbs 104 J of heat at the higher temperature. The amount of heat converted into work is

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A heat engine is a device

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The value of sink temperature, when the efficiency of the engine is 100% , is 

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The sink temperature of a heat engine 77. The efficiency is 30%. The source temperature is

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An ideal heat engine has an efficiency η . The coefficient of performance of the engine when drive backward will be

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The temperatures T1 and T2 of heat reservoirs in the ideal Carnot engine are 1500oC and 500oC respectively. If T1 increases by 100oC, the efficiency of the engine is