American University of Armenia Thermal Energy Reservoirs Worksheet

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Prove that a refrigerator?s COP cannot exceed that of a completely reversible refrigerator that shares the same thermal energy reservoirs.

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Second law of thermodynamics:
There are two statements in the second law of thermodynamics.
According to Kelvin Plank's statement, a system working on a single thermal reservoir cannot
produce an equal amount of work.
According to Clausius's statement, in simple words, the heat always flows from a higher
temperature body to a lower temperature body between two objects.

To solve this problem, consider two refrigerators A with completely reversible ...


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