Exam 15: Thermodynamics

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An engineer wants to use a river (minimum temperature of 4 ∘^{\circ} C)to cool his electrical plant which heats water with a boiler operating at 220 ∘^{\circ} C.If he wishes to produce 185 kW of power using this plant,what is the minimum energy he must supply to his boiler if it is maximally efficient?

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A refrigerator uses 40.0 J of work to extract 90.0 J from a heat reservoir at 0.00 ∘^{\circ} C.What is the coefficient of performance for the refrigerator?

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A heat pump is used to heat a house in Minnesota in the winter and has half the ideal coefficient of performance for a reversible heat pump.If the outside air temperature is -15 ∘^{\circ} C and the indoor temperature desired is 20 ∘^{\circ} C,what is its coefficient of performance under these conditions?

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1.50 moles of an ideal gas freely expands from 1.00 liter to 4.50 liters.The change in entropy in the expansion is

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When 1.000 kg of ice melts,33.00 ×\times 104 J/kg of heat are needed.What is the entropy change in the melting process?

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An engineer uses a river (which averages 4 ∘^{\circ} C)to cool his electrical plant which heats water with a boiler operating at 750 ∘^{\circ} C .What's the maximal performance (in terms of efficiency)theoretically possible for this electrical plant?

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A heat engine has an efficiency of 35.0% and receives 150 J of heat per cycle.How much heat does it exhaust in each cycle?

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A heat pump uses 100 J of work to output 150 J of heat at some temperature.What is the coefficient of performance for the heat pump?

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120 J of heat flows by thermal conduction from 100 ∘^{\circ} C to 0.00 ∘^{\circ} C.What is the change in entropy for this process?

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A engine goes through a cyclic process.During the cyclic process the engine does 600 J of work and has a heat output of 2400 J.What is the efficiency of the engine?

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A system in a certain macro state has 1.2 ×\times 103 microstates.Through some process,the system changes the number of microstates to 3 ×\times 104.What is the change in entropy for the process?

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An ideal reversible heat pump is used to heat a house in Minnesota in the winter.If the outside air temperature is -15 ∘^{\circ} C and the indoor temperature desired is 20 ∘^{\circ} C,what is the expected coefficient of performance for the heat pump under these conditions?

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If 1.00 mol of oxygen is heated at constant pressure of 1.00 atm from 10.0 ∘^{\circ} C to 25.0 ∘^{\circ} C.What is the work done by the gas during this expansion?

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It can be shown that the change in entropy in heating or cooling a sample is given by the relation Δ\Delta S = mc ln (TF/Ti),where m is the mass of the sample,c is the specific heat of the sample,and TF and Ti are the final and initial temperatures respectively.What is the change in entropy when 20.0 grams of aluminum with a specific heat of 0.9 J/gm K is heated from 10.0 ∘^{\circ} C to 60.0 ∘^{\circ} C?

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10 joules of heat energy are transferred to a sample of ideal gas at constant pressure.As a result,the internal energy of the gas

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A heat engine has an efficiency of 35.0% and receives 150 J of heat per cycle.How much work does it perform in each cycle?

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A very efficient engine has the following characteristics - combustion = 1900 ∘^{\circ} C, exhaust = 430 ∘^{\circ} C, 7.0 ×\times 109 cal of fuel produces 1.4 ×\times 107 J of work in one hour.What is the output in hp?

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What is the maximum theoretical efficiency possible for an engine operating between 100 ∘^{\circ} C and 400 ∘^{\circ} C?

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An ideal,reversible refrigerator keeps food in the freezer portion at -15 ∘^{\circ} C and dumps excess heat into the kitchen,whose temperature is 20 ∘^{\circ} C.What is the refrigerator's coefficient of performance under these conditions?

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When an ideal gas adiabatically expands

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