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imanialler

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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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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

D



imanialler

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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