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Worksheet 20: Multiple Choice; Short Answer. (80 pts.) We learned a ...

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Problems 6-10 pertained to the Carnot Cycle. Depending on the direction of the process, itis either a “Carnot refrigerator” or a “Carnot engine.” The Carnot engine is often called aheat pump.(a) Some Canadians heat their homes using what is called a water-exchange heat pump. Inthis case, heat is taken out of well water (at an approximate temperature of 10 C) andtransferred to a cosy Canadian cottage (at an approximate temperature of <strong>20</strong> C). Theefficiency of a heat pump is defined as the amount of work that must be done on thesystem to transfer a given amount of heat to the inside of the cottage. What is theefficiency of the cottage’s heat pump?

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