Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11, Problem 34CQ
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The characteristics of a hypothetical machine which extract heat from warm water and do work and release the remaining energy to cold water in an ocean and if it is a perpetual motion machine.
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Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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