A Refrigerator Has a Performance Coefficient (COP) of 1

question 65

Short Answer

A refrigerator has a performance coefficient (COP) of 1.15, and it extracts 7.95 J of heat from the cold reservoir during each cycle.
(a) How much work is done on the gas in each cycle?
(b) How much heat is exhausted into the hot reservoir in each cycle?

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