Carnot Engine

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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

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Even Carnot engine cannot give 100% efficiency because we cannot

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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.

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

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

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State the carnot theorem.

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

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Isothermal compression in Carnot cycle happened at _____.

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

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The third process is isothermal compression.

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A carnot engine has an efficiency of 30%.Its efficiency is to be increased to 50%.By what must the temperature of the source be increased if the sink is at 300 K?

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

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

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

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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 _____.

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An ideal heat engine exhausting heat at 77°C is to have a 30% efficiency. It must take the heat at:

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The temperatures T1 and T2 of heat reservoirs in the ideal Carnot engine are 1227 °C and 527 °C respectively. If T1 increases by 100 °C, the efficiency of the engine in percentage is

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A Carnot engine absorbs 750 J of heat energy from a reservoir at 137  and rejects 500 J of heat during each cycle, then the temperature of sink is

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An engine has an efficiency of 16. When the temperature of sink is reduced by 62°C, its efficiency is doubled. The temperatures of source and sink are,

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Two Carnot engines A and B are operated in series. The first one A, receives heat at T1(=600 K) and rejects a reservoir at temperature T2. The second engine B receives heat rejected by the first engine and, in turn, rejects a heat reservoir at T3(=400 K). Calculate the temperature T2, if the work outputs of the two engines are equal

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Efficiency of a Carnot engine working between reservoirs 60°C and 30°C is