Object — Reverse-cycle machine that transfers heat by absorbing work.
Present in chapters
12
Linked atoms
18 linked atoms.
10 Irreversible transformations and energy balance
11 Entropy
12 Cycles and heat engines
- Worked exercise — Carnot refrigerator and energy balance
- Refrigerators and heat pumps
- Problem — Air conditioner and an open window
- Problem — Real air conditioner (SEER)
- Problem — Sketching a Carnot cycle (engine and refrigerator)
- Problem — Fridge with the door open
- Problem — Refrigerator as a reverse cycle
- Problem — Carnot refrigerator (273 K)
- Problem — Ideal heat pump for a house
- Problem — Heat pump for heating (295–273 K)
- Problem — Heat pump between 295 and 246 K
- Problem — Ranking four refrigerators
- Problem — Room with an open refrigerator
- Problem — Estimating the power of an air conditioner
- Problem — True or false about engines and refrigerators