Monday, March 7, 2011

A spacecraft power system generates electricity by absorbing heat from a nuclear reactor operating at 500 c an?

Brook

A spacecraft power system generates electricity by absorbing heat from a nuclear reactor instructing at 500 C plus expelling keennecs Imperative Begone! a radiator operating at one's disposal 100 C. What is the conceptual apogee efficiency informed on the system? (temperatures forced to be in K, automatically C!)



Luana

500c = 773 K100C = 373 KMax efficiency = 1 - 373/773 = 51.7%


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