The efficiency of a Carnot engine is found to increase from $25 \%$ to $40 \%$ on increasing the temperature $(T_1)$ of the source alone by $100 \ K$. The temperature $(T_2)$ of the sink is given by: (in $K$)

The efficiency of a Carnot engine depends upon

An ideal Carnot engine,whose efficiency is $40 \%$ receives heat at $500 \; K$. If its efficiency is $50 \%$ then the intake temperature for the same exhaust temperature is ......... $K$.

What is the common feature of a heat engine based on a cyclic process?

One mole of an ideal monoatomic gas undergoes the following four reversible processes:
Step $1$: It is first compressed adiabatically from volume $V_{1}$ to $1 \; m^{3}$.
Step $2$: Then expanded isothermally to volume $10 \; m^{3}$.
Step $3$: Then expanded adiabatically to volume $V_{3}$.
Step $4$: Then compressed isothermally to volume $V_{1}$.
If the efficiency of the above cycle is $3/4$, then $V_{1}$ is ............ $m^{3}$.

$A$ Carnot engine has an efficiency of $1/6$. When the temperature of the sink is reduced by $62\,^{\circ}C$,its efficiency is doubled. The temperatures of the source and the sink are,respectively: