A particular car engine operates between temperatures of 440°C (inside the cylinders of the engine) and 20°C (the temperature of
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One of the concepts to be used to solve this problem is that of thermal efficiency, that is, that coefficient or dimensionless ratio calculated as the ratio of the energy produced and the energy supplied to the machine.
From the temperature the value is given as
Where,
T_L = Cold focus temperature
T_H = Hot spot temperature
Our values are given as,
T_L = 20\° C = (20+273) K = 293 K
T_H = 440\° C = (440+273) K = 713 K
Replacing we have,
Therefore the maximum possible efficiency the car can have is 58.9%
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As per Newton's second law of motion, an object's acceleration is directly proportional to the external unbalanced force acting on it and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
As the object given here is an elevator with mass 1000 kg and the acceleration is given as , the force needed to accelerate it can be obtained by taking the product of mass and acceleration.
So 2000 N or 2 kN amount of force is needed to accelerate the elevator upward at a rate of .