Heat Engines: a Real (Non-Carnot) Heat Engine, Operating Between Heat

question 11

Multiple Choice

Heat engines: A real (non-Carnot) heat engine, operating between heat reservoirs at temperatures of and performs 2.4 kJ of net work and rejects of heat in a single cycle. The thermal efficiency of this heat engine is closest to

• A) 0.21.
• B) 0.19.
• C) 0.17.
• D) 0.23.
• E) 0.25.

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