All the chapter’s exercises, worked step-by-step, in order of appearance in the book: first the worked exercises in the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, Fermi estimates).
Worked exercises in the text
End-of-chapter problems
- Efficiency from exchanged heats (800-600 J)
- True or false on reversibility and cycles
- Maximum Carnot efficiency (500-300 K)
- Adiabatic compression of a diatomic gas
- Drawing a Carnot cycle (engine and refrigerator)
- Room with the refrigerator door open
- Ideal heat pump for a house
- Proof of Carnot efficiency
- Monatomic Carnot cycle (400-250 K)
- Carnot cycle in the ln P – ln V plane
- Ranking four Carnot engines
- Fridge with the door open
- Useful work for 1000 J absorbed
- Efficiency of a real engine (4000-3000 J)
- Heat pump between 295 and 246 K
- An engine that’s too efficient
- Ranking three Carnot engines
- True or false on engines and refrigerators
- Estimating the power of an air conditioner
- Rectangular cycle in the p-V plane
- Balances of a cycle
- Carnot compared with other cycles
- Refrigerator as a reverse cycle
- Carnot cycle in the T-S plane
- Ranking four Carnot engines (2)
- Ranking four refrigerators
- Carnot efficiency and work (500-300 K)
- Carnot refrigerator (273 K)
- Efficiency of the Otto cycle
- Efficiency of the Brayton cycle
- Area of a p-V cycle
- Minimum temperature of a power plant
- Entropy in a Carnot cycle
- Heat pump for heating (295-273 K)
- Carnot efficiency as T_f → 0
- An engine with efficiency greater than 1
- Carnot with three reservoirs
- Realistic petrol engine (Otto vs Carnot)
- Carnot refrigerator and energy balance
- Air conditioner and open window
- Why engines run at high temperature
- Carnot in p-V (adiabatics vs isotherms)
- Four cycles in the T-S plane
- Power of a coal-fired power plant
- Morning shower
- Real air conditioner (SEER)
- Stirling engine
- Efficiency of the Diesel cycle