A cyclical heat engine operating according to a Carnot cycle has an efficiency of 13.0% efficiency. A 7.30 x 10^9 J of heat is transferred into the engine, at a temperature of 575 K? (a) What is the work output of the engine? (b) How much heat transfer occurs to the environment? (c) What is the hot temperature of the cycle?

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A cyclical heat engine operating according to a Carnot cycle has an efficiency of 13.0% efficiency. A 7.30 x 10^9 J of heat is transferred into the engine, at a temperature of 575 K?

(a) What is the work output of the engine?
(b) How much heat transfer occurs to the environment?
(c) What is the hot temperature of the cycle?
(d) What is the change in the entropy of the engine on the hot temperature isothermal transformation?
(e) What is the change in the entropy of the engine on the cold temperature isothermal
transformation? 

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