The door of an operating refrigerator is kept open. As a result, the temperature of the room will

The door of an operating refrigerator is kept open. As a result, the temperature of the room will
  1. remain unchanged
  2. increases
  3. decreases
  4. depends on the contents inside the refrigerator

Solution

A refrigerator is a heat engine which extracts heat from low temperature reservoir and transfer it to high temperature. If a refrigerator's door is kept open, then room will become hot, because in this situation, refrigerator exhaust more heat into the room than earlier. Hence, temperature of the room increases and room becomes hot.

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2020 (18 Sep Shift 1)

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