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A Carnot engine will sink temperature at 17^(@)C has 50% efficiency. By now much should its source temperature by changed to increase its efficiency to 60% ?

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225 K
`128^(@)C`
580 K
145 K

Solution :`eta = 1 - (T_(2))/(T_(1))`
INITIALLY, `(50)/(100) = 1 - (273 + 17)/(T_(1))` or `(290)/(T_(1)) = (1)/(2)` or `T_(1) = 580 K`
Finally, `(60)/(100) = 1 - (273 + 17)/(T._(1))` or `(290)/(T._(1)) = (2)/(5)` or `T._(1) = 725 K`
`:.` Change in source TEMPERATURE `= (725 - 580) K = 145 K`


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