Question: (a) On a winter day, a certain house loses 5.00 108 J of heat to the outside (about 500,000 Btu). What is the total

(a) On a winter day, a certain house loses 5.00 × 108 J of heat to the outside (about 500,000 Btu). What is the total change in entropy due to this heat transfer alone, assuming an average indoor temperature of 21.0oC and an average outdoor temperature of 5.00oC?

(b) This large change in entropy implies a large amount of energy has become unavailable to do work. Where do we find more energy when such energy is lost to us?

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