The hot reservoir for a Carnot engine has a temperature of

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The hot reservoir for a Carnot engine has a temperature of 890 K, while the cold reservoir has a temperature of 670 K. The heat input for this engine is 4800 J. The 670-K reservoir also serves as the hot reservoir for a second Carnot engine. This second engine uses the rejected heat of the fi rst engine as input and extracts additional work from it. The rejected heat from the second engine goes into a reservoir that has a temperature of 420 K. Find the total work delivered by the two engines.

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