An ideal Stirling cycle cooler, using helium (considered ideal) as its working fluid, has a compression temperature Tc=32°C and an expansion temperature TE=-21°C. If state 1, at the beginning of the compression, is defined with a volume V1=40 cm3 and a pressure P1=1.8 MPa, and state 2 is defined with a volume V2=33 cm3, what is the heat qɛ absorbed during the expansion process (in Joules)?

An ideal Stirling cycle cooler, using helium (considered ideal) as its working fluid, has a compression temperature Tc=32°C and an expansion temperature TE=-21°C. If state 1, at the beginning of the compression, is defined with a volume V1=40 cm3 and a pressure P1=1.8 MPa, and state 2 is defined with a volume V2=33 cm3, what is the heat qɛ absorbed during the expansion process (in Joules)?

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