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Can a heat engine operating with only one thermal reservoir?

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No

Step-by-step explanation:

Heat engine is a device which operates between two thermal reservoir.One thermal reservoir supply the thermal energy to the heat engine and another thermal reservoir absorb heat rejected by heat engine.These thermal reservoir are infinite amount of heat capacity system.Temperature of thermal reservoir remain constant always.

So we can say that heat engine can not operate by using only one thermal reservoir.

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