Question

A certain heat engine does 8.0 kJ of work and dissipates 8.00 kJ of waste heat in a cyclical process.

(a) What was the heat input to this engine?

(b) What was its efficiency?
bobpursley
Hmmm. Wouldn't it be 16kJ input?
wouldn't the efficiency be 50 percent?

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