Find upper limit on thermal efficiency of heat engine


An inventor claims to have invented a heat engine that operates using energy reservirs whose temperatures are 600K and 300K. She also claims that this engine produces 10kW of power while rejecting heat at a rate of 2 kW

A) what is the rate at which heat is being transferred from the high temperature reservoir to this heat engine?

B) What is the upper limit on the thermal efficiency of this heat engine?

C) Does this heat engine satisfy the second law?

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