College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 16, Problem 4P
An aircraft engine has a heat efficiency of e = 0.3. It discards 6400 J each cycle. (a) How much heat is supplied to the engine each cycle? (b) How much work energy does the engine produce each cycle?
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