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Homework Statement
A Carnot heat engine absorbs heat form a high-temp reservoir at 1200K and concerts some of it into useful work and rejects the rest to a low-temp reservoir at 400K. A) What is the efficiency of the engine? b) If the engine absorbs 2400J per cycle from the high-temp reservoir at 1200K, what is the amount of work done, and how much heat is rejected to the low-temp reservoir at 400K?
Homework Equations
A) e = (T2-T1)/T2
ΔU=Q-W
The Attempt at a Solution
For part a, I got (1200-400)/1200= 0.6666...
For part b, my logic is that Total energy = work + heat rejected, based on ΔU formula above.
Therefore, work done should be 2400J*0.66 = 1600 J and heat rejected should be the rest, aka 2400*0.33 = 800J.
These answers seems to easy, especially for part b. Am I doing something wrong?