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[SOLVED] Chemistry For engineers: thermodynamics
I was given a question: Reasonable efficiency for converting chemical energy to electrical energy via combustion is 30%. Calculate the how many pounds of coal must be burned to run your reading lamp for two hours. Atypical reading lamp has a 75-W bulb. Assume that coal is pure graphite. ( 1W=1J/s)
Yo be honest this is nothing like the examples given in class of even in the book. I'm not sure what where to even begin, which equation to use. My intial instinct was it should be a heat capacity equation, but I don't know how the other information relates or how to calculate that given this information.
I was given a question: Reasonable efficiency for converting chemical energy to electrical energy via combustion is 30%. Calculate the how many pounds of coal must be burned to run your reading lamp for two hours. Atypical reading lamp has a 75-W bulb. Assume that coal is pure graphite. ( 1W=1J/s)
Yo be honest this is nothing like the examples given in class of even in the book. I'm not sure what where to even begin, which equation to use. My intial instinct was it should be a heat capacity equation, but I don't know how the other information relates or how to calculate that given this information.