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imanialler

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on: Jul 28, 2018
An ideal heat engine can have an efficiency of 1 if the temperature of the low temperature reservoir is
 a. 0 K.
  b. 0C.
  c. 0F.
  d. 0R.
  e. the same as the temperature of the heat source.

Question 2

By operating a reversible heat engine with an ideal gas as the working substance in a Carnot cycle and measuring the ratio Qc/Qh, we can calculate
 a. n, the number of moles of the ideal gas.
  b. the ratio Vc/Vh of the volumes of the ideal gas.
  c. the ratio Pc/Ph of the pressures of the ideal gas.
  d. the ratio PcVc/PhVh of the products of volumes and pressures of the ideal gas.
  e. the value of Avogadro's number.


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polinasid

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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

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imanialler

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Reply #2 on: Jul 28, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 28, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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