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Chapter 4: 4.10 (page 129)
Suppose that heat leaks into your kitchen refrigerator at an average rate of 300 watts. Assuming ideal operation, how much power must it draw from the wall?
The power drawn from wall is 57.69 W.
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Calculate the efficiency of a Rankine cycle that is modified from the parameters used in the text in each of the following three ways (one at a time), and comment briefly on the results:
reduce the maximum temperature to localid="1649685342874"
reduce the maximum pressure to localid="1649685354408" bars;
reduce the minimum temperature to localid="1649685367285" .
Under many conditions, the rate at which heat enters an air conditioned building on a hot summer day is proportional to the difference in temperature between inside and outside, . (If the heat enters entirely by conduction, this statement will certainly be true. Radiation from direct sunlight would be an exception.) Show that, under these conditions, the cost of air conditioning should be roughly proportional to the square of the temperature difference. Discuss the implications, giving a numerical example.
Derive a formula for the efficiency of the Diesel cycle, in terms of the compression ratio V1/ V2and the cutoff ratio V3/ V2. Show that for a given compression ratio, the Diesel cycle is less efficient than the Otto cycle. Evaluate the theoretical efficiency of a Diesel engine with a compression ratio of 18 and a cutoff ratio of 2.
A common (but imprecise) way of stating the third law of thermodynamics is "You can't reach absolute zero." Discuss how the third law, as stated in Section 3.2, puts limits on how low a temperature can be attained by various refrigeration techniques.
In table 4.1, why does the entropy of water increase with increasing temperature, while the entropy of steam decreases with increasing temperature?
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