ENGINEERING APPLICATION, CONTEXT-RICH An inventor comes to

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ENGINEERING APPLICATION, CONTEXT-RICH An inventor comes to you to explain his new invention. It is a novel heat engine using water vapor as the working substance. He claims that the water vapor absorbs heat at does work at the rate of 125 W, and releases heat to the air at the rate of only 25.0 W, when the air temperature is (a) Explain to him why he cannot be correct. (b) After careful analysis of the data in his prospectus folder, you decide he has made an error in the measurement of his exhausted-heat value. What is the minimum rate of exhausting heat that would make you consider believing him?

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