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Re: [Phys-L] Carnot (?) efficiency of non-Carnot cycles
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: John Denker <
jsd@av8n.com
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Date
: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:06:06 -0700
On 03/03/2015 11:07 AM, Carl Mungan wrote in part:
Define efficiency W/Qh = 0.5ln2/(ln2+0.75) = 0.24015.
Algebra error.
The denominator is Qh, which is just ln(2),
not ln(2) + 0.75.
I have no idea where that 0.75 came from.
I get efficiency of 0.5, as expected.
Hint: I used a spreadsheet to run an example.
That makes it particularly easy to check the work.
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