An ideally efficient airplane engine provides work as heat flows from 1200 K burned gases to 280 K air. What fraction of the heat leaving the burned gases is converted into work?

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Answer:

The fraction of heat that is converted to work is 0.7667 or 76.67% of the heat of burned gases.

Explanation:

Given:

Temperature of hot burned gases is, [tex]T_H=1200\ K[/tex]

Temperature of cold air is, [tex]T_C=280\ K[/tex]

Now, the efficiency of the airplane engine in terms of temperature is given as:

[tex]\eta=\dfrac{T_H-T_C}{T_H}[/tex]

Plug in the given values and solve for [tex]\eta[/tex]. This gives,

[tex]\eta=\frac{1200-280}{1200}\\\\\eta=\frac{920}{1200}=0.7667[/tex]

Now, efficiency in terms of work and heat input is given as:

[tex]\eta=\frac{Work}{Heat\ in}\\\\\eta=\frac{W}{Q_H}[/tex]

As input heat is from hot burned gases. So, [tex]Heat\ in=Q_H[/tex]

Now, plug in the given value of efficiency and express "Work" in terms of input heat, [tex]Q_H[/tex]. This gives,

[tex]0.7667=\frac{Work}{Q_H}\\\\Work=0.7667Q_H[/tex]

Therefore, the fraction of heat that is converted to work is 0.7667 or 76.67% of the heat of burned gases.

Fraction of the heat converted into work is 76.66%

Given that;

Efficient airplane engine provides work as heat TH = 1200 K

Burned gases heat TL = 280 K

Find:

Fraction of the heat converted into work

Computation:

Fraction of the heat converted into work = [(TH - TL) / TH]100

Fraction of the heat converted into work = [(1200 - 280) / 1200]100

Fraction of the heat converted into work = [(1200 - 280) / 12]

Fraction of the heat converted into work = [920 / 12]

Fraction of the heat converted into work = 76.66%

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