Fundamentals of Physics Extended
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781118230725
Author: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Videos
Textbook Question
Chapter 20, Problem 26P
In a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor, the fuel is deuterium gas at a temperature of 7 × 108 K. If this gas could be used to operate a Carnot engine with TL = 100°C, what would be the engine’s efficiency? Take both temperatures to be exact and report your answer to seven significant figures.
Expert Solution & Answer
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solution
Students have asked these similar questions
An engineer designs a heat engine using flat-plate solar collectors. The collectors deliver heat at 74°C and the engine releases heat to the surroundings at 32°C. What is the maximum possible efficiency of this engine? (Round the final answer to four decimal places.)
The maximum efficiency of the engine is __%
Consider the thermodynamic process, A->B->C->A shown above. The heat absorbed during A->B is 591J. If the change in internal energy during B->C is 4146J, What is the change in internal energy in SI units during C->A? Express only the number of your answer with 4 significant figures.
As a gasoline engine is running, the amount of gasoline containing 15,000J of chemical potential energy is burned in 1 s. During that second, the engine does 3,000J of work. The burning gasoline has a temperature of about 2500 K. The waste heat from the engine flows into the air at about 300 K. What is the Carnot efficiency of a heat engine operating between these two temperatures?
Chapter 20 Solutions
Fundamentals of Physics Extended
Ch. 20 - Point i in Fig. 20-19 represents the initial state...Ch. 20 - In lour experiments, blocks A and B, starting ill...Ch. 20 - A gas, confined to an insulated cylinder, is...Ch. 20 - An ideal monatomic gas at initial temperature T0...Ch. 20 - In four experiments, 2.5 mol of hydrogen gas...Ch. 20 - A box contains 100 atoms in a configuration that...Ch. 20 - Does the entropy per cycle increase, decrease, or...Ch. 20 - Three Carnot engines operate between temperature...Ch. 20 - An inventor claims to have invented four engines,...Ch. 20 - Does the entropy per cycle increase, decrease, or...
Ch. 20 - SSM Suppose 4.00 mol of an ideal gas undergoes a...Ch. 20 - An ideal gas undergoes a reversible isothermal...Ch. 20 - ILW A 2.50 mol sample of an ideal gas expands...Ch. 20 - How much energy must be transferred as heat for a...Ch. 20 - ILW Find a the energy absorbed as heat and b the...Ch. 20 - a What is the entropy change of a 12.0 g ice cube...Ch. 20 - ILW A 50.0 g block of copper whose temperature is...Ch. 20 - At very low temperatures, the molar specific heat...Ch. 20 - A 10 g ice cube at 10oC is placed in a lake whose...Ch. 20 - A 364 g block is put in contact with a thermal...Ch. 20 - SSM WWW In an experiment, 200 g of aluminum with a...Ch. 20 - A gas sample undergoes a reversible isothermal...Ch. 20 - In the irreversible process of Fig. 20-5, let the...Ch. 20 - Prob. 14PCh. 20 - A mixture of 1773 g of water and 227 g of ice is...Ch. 20 - GO An 8.0 g ice cube at -10C is put into a Thermos...Ch. 20 - Prob. 17PCh. 20 - GO A 2.0 mol sample of an ideal monatomic gas...Ch. 20 - Suppose 1.00 mol of a monatomic ideal gas is taken...Ch. 20 - Expand 1.00 mol of an monatomic gas initially at...Ch. 20 - GO Energy can be removed from water as heat at and...Ch. 20 - GO An insulated Thermos contains 130 g of water at...Ch. 20 - A Carnot engine whose low-temperature reservoir is...Ch. 20 - A Carnot engine absorbs 52 kJ as heat and exhausts...Ch. 20 - A Carnot engine has an efficiency of 22.0. It...Ch. 20 - In a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor, the fuel...Ch. 20 - SSM WWW A Carnot engine operates between 235C and...Ch. 20 - In the first stage of a two-stage Carnot engine,...Ch. 20 - GO Figure 20-27 shows a reversible cycle through...Ch. 20 - A 500 W Carnot engine operates between...Ch. 20 - The efficiency of a particular car engine is 25...Ch. 20 - GO A Carnot engine is set up to produce a certain...Ch. 20 - SSM ILW Figure 20-29 shows a reversible cycle...Ch. 20 - GO An ideal gas 1.0 mol is the working substance...Ch. 20 - The cycle in Fig. 20-31 represents the operation...Ch. 20 - How much work must be done by a Carnot...Ch. 20 - SSM A heat pump is used to heal a building, The...Ch. 20 - The electric motor of a heat pump transfers energy...Ch. 20 - SSM A Carnot air conditioner lakes energy from the...Ch. 20 - To make ice, a freezer that is a reverse Carnot...Ch. 20 - ILW An air conditioner operating between 93F and...Ch. 20 - The motor in a refrigerator has a power of 200 W....Ch. 20 - GO Figure 20-32 represents a Carnot engine that...Ch. 20 - a During each cycle, a Carnot engine absorbs 750 J...Ch. 20 - Prob. 45PCh. 20 - A box contains N identical gas molecules equally...Ch. 20 - SSM WWW A box contains N gas molecules, Consider...Ch. 20 - Four particles are in the insulated box of Fig....Ch. 20 - A cylindrical copper rod of length 1.50 m and...Ch. 20 - Suppose 0.550 mol of an ideal gas is isothermally...Ch. 20 - Prob. 51PCh. 20 - Suppose 1.0 mol of a monatomic ideal gas initially...Ch. 20 - GO Suppose that a deep shaft were drilled in...Ch. 20 - What is the entropy change for 3.20 mol of an...Ch. 20 - A 600 g lump of copper at 80.0C is placed in 70.0...Ch. 20 - Figure 20-33 gives the force magnitude F versus...Ch. 20 - The temperature of 1.00 mol of a monatomic ideal...Ch. 20 - Repeat Problem 57, with the pressure now kept...Ch. 20 - SSM A 0.600 kg sample of water is initially ice at...Ch. 20 - A three-step cycle is undergone by 3.4 mol of an...Ch. 20 - An inventor has built an engine X and claims that...Ch. 20 - Suppose 2.00 mol of a diatomic gas is taken...Ch. 20 - A three-step cycle is undergone reversibly by 4.00...Ch. 20 - a A Carnot engine operates between a hot reservoir...Ch. 20 - A 2.00 mol diatomic gas initially at 300 K...Ch. 20 - An ideal refrigerator does 150 J of work to remove...Ch. 20 - Suppose that 260 J is conducted from a...Ch. 20 - An apparatus that liquefies helium is in a room...Ch. 20 - GO A brass rod is in thermal contact with a...Ch. 20 - A 45.0 g block of tungsten at 30.0C and a 25.0 g...Ch. 20 - Prob. 71PCh. 20 - Calculate the efficiency of a fossil-fuel power...Ch. 20 - SSM A Carnot refrigerator extracts 35.0 kJ as heat...Ch. 20 - A Carnot engine whose high-temperature reservoir...Ch. 20 - SSM System A of three particles and system B of...Ch. 20 - Figure 20-36 shows a Carnot cycle on a T-S...Ch. 20 - Find the relation between the efficiency of a...Ch. 20 - A Carnot engine has a power of 500 W. It operates...Ch. 20 - In a real refrigerator, the low-temperature coils...
Additional Science Textbook Solutions
Find more solutions based on key concepts
3. What is free-fall, and why does it make you weightless? Briefly describe why astronauts are weightless in th...
The Cosmic Perspective (8th Edition)
Modified True/False 6. __________ Halophiles inhabit extremely saline habitats, such as the Great Salt Lake.
Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (5th Edition)
Johnny was vigorously exercising the only joints in the skull that are freely movable. What would you guess he ...
Anatomy & Physiology (6th Edition)
What is the approximate elevation of the point marked with an X in Section 8. Elevation of X _____ feet
Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
Plants use the process of photosynthesis to convert the energy in sunlight to chemical energy in the form of su...
Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology (5th Edition)
A dual-fluid heat exchanger has l0Ibm/s water entering at l00F,20psia and leaving at 50F,20psia . The other flu...
Fundamentals Of Thermodynamics
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, physics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- Assume a sample of an ideal gas is at room temperature. What action will necessarily make the entropy of the sample increase? (a) Transfer energy into it by heat. (b) Transfer energy into it irreversibly by heat. (c) Do work on it. (d) Increase either its temperature or its volume, without letting the other variable decrease. (e) None of those choices is correct.arrow_forwardA Carnot heat engine operates between thermal reservoirs at Th and Tc. What is the theoretical efficiency, η, of this engine? Part (a) Write an expression for thermal efficiency, η. Part (b) Solve numerically for the thermal efficiency, η, assuming that Th = 910°C and Tc = 310°C.arrow_forwardplease answer the following As a gasoline engine is running, an amount of gasoline containing 12,000 J of chemical potential energy is burned in 1 s. During that second, the engine does 4,000 J of work. What is the engine's efficiency (in percent)? The burning gasoline has a temperature of about 4,300°F (2,600 K). The waste heat from the engine flows into air at about 88°F (304 K). What is the Carnot efficiency (in percent) of a heat engine operating between these two temperatures?arrow_forward
- A heat engine receives 500 j of heat from its combustion process and loses 391 J through the exhaust and friction. What is it’s efficiency?arrow_forwardA heat engine operates between a hot reservoir at 790°C and a cold reservoir at a temperature of 15 °C. What is its maximum possible efficiency? Enter your answer with at least two decimal places. a) The maximum possible efficiency of the heat engine is %. b) If the temperature of the cold reservoir was lowered, the maximum efficiency wouldarrow_forwardA heat engine receives heat in the amount of Qh= 525 kJ from a high temperature thermal reservoir and delivers W, net= 360 kJ of work per cycle. Write an expression for the efficiency of the engine. What is this efficiency? n = Write an expression for the amount of energy required to be rejected into the low temperature reservoir. How much energy, in kilojoules, is rejected into the low temperature resevoir?arrow_forward
- Like air conditioning, a refrigerator pumps heat from inside the refrigerator to outside the refrigerator. The efficiency of a refrigerator is given by the heat it removes from the inside of the refrigerator over the work done by the electric motor: Qcold NAC W where W is the work done by the electric motor. The maximum theoretical efficiency of a refrigerator is Tc TH - Tc NAC maz 1. If the temperature inside the fridge is 35°F and the temperature outside is 70°F what is the maximum possible efficiency of the refrigerator. (Hint: You need to convert both temperatures to Kelvin first. Google can do this conversion for you.)arrow_forwardThe temperature in the deep interiors of some giant molecular clouds in the Milky Way galaxy is 50 K. Compare the amount of energy that would have to be transferred to this environment to the amount that would have to be transferred to a room temperature environment to bring about a 7.7 J/K increase in the entropy of the universe in each case. ΔEroom temp/ ΔEMilky Way =arrow_forwardGive the numerical answers as numerical values of the requested units (number only) to three significant figures. If necessary, use a period as a decimal separator. Consider an ice cube with a mass of 331 g. Ice is initially 0.0°C degrees and melts at 0.0°C into degradable water. The melted water is heated to a temperature of 56.5°C. What is entropy change (J/K)?arrow_forward
- An engine takes in 600 J and exhausts 450 J each second is running. What is the engine's efficiency?arrow_forwardGive a derivation of the ideal gas law in two dimensions, using dU=TdS+ydA where A is the area and y is the surface tension. Hint: Use entropy dependence on areaarrow_forwardAn engine operates at 66.8% the maximum (Carnot) efficiency. It has a cold reservoir at 651 K and a hot reservoir at 948 K. What is the efficiency of the engine?arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based TextPhysicsISBN:9781133104261Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. JewettPublisher:Cengage Learning
Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text
Physics
ISBN:9781133104261
Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
Publisher:Cengage Learning
The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat Flow, Entropy, and Microstates; Author: Professor Dave Explains;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwW4w2nAMc;License: Standard YouTube License, CC-BY