A heat pump is used to deliver of heat per cycle to a room at by absorbing heat from…

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Thermodynamics · Thermodynamics

Problem

A heat pump is used to deliver

3.0\times10^{3}\,\text{J}

of heat per cycle to a room at

300\,\text{K}

by absorbing heat from the outside air at

285\,\text{K}

. Determine the least amount of work that has to be supplied to the pump in each cycle.