A 40%-efficient car engine accelerates the 2000 kg car from rest to 19 m/s . How much energy is transferred to the engine by burning gasoline?
Initially the car is at rest, the initial kinetic energy of the car is zero
The kinetic energy of the car when it is moving at speed 19m/s is
By work energy theorem, the net work done on a mechanical system is equal to the change in kinetic energy of the system. The work done by the engine is
Efficiency of an engine is defined as
where Q is the heat energy transferred to the engine by burning gasoline.
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