As shown in the figure, five Carnot engines, each with efficiency $\eta$ and same number of cycles per unit time, are operating between six heat reservoirs. The amount of heat released per cycle by one engine is completely absorbed by the next engine. Consider $Q_0$ to be the amount of heat absorbed per cycle by the first engine and $W$ as the amount of total work done by all the engines per cycle, then the net efficiency of the system is found to be

$$\eta_{\mathrm{net}} = \frac{W}{Q_0} = \frac{211}{243}.$$

The value of $\eta$ is:

As shown in the figure, an insulated container is fitted with a thermally conducting but immovable partition ($P_1$) and a freely movable but thermally insulated piston ($P_2$). The partition $P_1$ with thermal conductivity $K$, cross sectional area $A$ and width $x$ divides the container into two sections, $S_1$ and $S_2$, each containing one mole of a monoatomic gas. The piston $P_2$ moves freely such that the gas in $S_2$ is always at the atmospheric pressure. Initially, the difference between the temperatures of $S_1$ and $S_2$ is $\Delta T_0$. The time it takes for the temperature difference to become $\frac{\Delta T_0}{2}$ is $nxR/KA$, where $R$ is the universal gas constant. The value of $n$ is:

[ Given: $ln 2 \approx 0.7$ ]

An ideal monatomic gas of $n$ moles is taken through a cycle $W X Y Z W$ consisting of consecutive adiabatic and isobaric quasi-static processes, as shown in the schematic $V-T$ diagram. The volume of the gas at $W, X$ and $Y$ points are, $64 \mathrm{~cm}^3, 125 \mathrm{~cm}^3$ and $250 \mathrm{~cm}^3$, respectively. If the absolute temperature of the gas $T_W$ at the point $W$ is such that $n R T_W=1 \mathrm{~J}$ ( $R$ is the universal gas constant), then the amount of heat absorbed (in J ) by the gas along the path $X Y$ is ___________.

The left and right compartments of a thermally isolated container of length $L$ are separated by a thermally conducting, movable piston of area $A$. The left and right compartments are filled with $\frac{3}{2}$ and 1 moles of an ideal gas, respectively. In the left compartment the piston is attached by a spring with spring constant $k$ and natural length $\frac{2 L}{5}$. In thermodynamic equilibrium, the piston is a distance $\frac{L}{2}$ from the left and right edges of the container as shown in the figure. Under the above conditions, if the pressure in the right compartment is $P=\frac{k L}{A} \alpha$, then the value of $\alpha$ is __________.