Question: Goal Solve for the efficiency of a heat engine using a five - step process the includes: 1 . Making a state table. 2 .

Goal Solve for the efficiency of a heat engine using a five-step process the includes:
1. Making a state table.
2. Making a process table.
3. Calculating the totals for Work, Heat, and Internal-Energy-Change.
4. Identifying the heat input (hot reservoir) and output (cold reservoir).
5. Calculating the efficiency of the engine.
Problem Shown in the figure to the right is a cyclic process undergone by a heat engine. Your heat engine shall use 5.0 moles of nitrogen gas (diatomic). During the process a->b, the pressure rises by a factor of 5.0. T_a=300K, P_a=100,000Pa,(1) Fill in the State Table (all pressures in Pascals, all volumes in cubic meters, all temperatures in K).
PressureVolumeTemperatureabc
(2) Fill in the Process Table (all entries in Joules).
WorkHeatdUa->bb->cc->a
(3) Find the Totals:
Work = JHeat = JdU = J
(4) Find the heat input (from "cold reservoir") and the heat output (to "hot reservoir"):
Q-hot = JQ-cold = J
(5) Find the performance coefficient of the refrigerator:
Coefficient =

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