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A Carnot engine operating between a reservoir of liquid mercury at its melting point (233 K) and a colder reservoir extracts 10.0 J of heat from the mercury and does 8.0 J of work during each cycle. What is the temperature of the colder reservoir?
 
  A) 47 K
  B) 186 K
  C) 163 K
  D) 207 K

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A Carnot engine operates between a high temperature reservoir at 435 K and a river with water at 280 K. If it absorbs 3700 J of heat each cycle, how much work per cycle does it perform?
 
  A) 1318 J
  B) 2382 J
  C) 1449 J
  D) 2251 J


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Jbrasil

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Reply #1 on: Jul 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Reply #2 on: Jul 29, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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