Efficiency of a heat engine

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Apr 15, 2015, 01:34 PM

Efficiency of a heat engine

If a heat engine takes in 648 watts of heat from a source at a temperature 1,092 kelvin and dumps off 205 watts of heat to a heat sink at 332 kelvins. What is the greatest theoretical efficiency of the heat engine?

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