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Consider a heat engine that operates between thermal reservoirs at 500 K and 250 K. Supp...

Consider a heat engine that operates between thermal reservoirs at 500 K and 250 K. Suppose the engine does 5000 J of work while it expels 1000 J of energy to the cold reservoir. Is this engine allowed by the second law of thermodynamics?

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