Two litres of an ideal gas at a pressure of 10 atm expands isothermally at 25 °C into a vacuum until its total volume is 10 litres. How much heat is absorbed and how much work is done in the expansion ?

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TextHeat and Work in Thermodynamics

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Consider the same expansion, but this time against a constant external pressure of 1 atm.

Consider the expansion given in problem 5.2, for 1 mol of an ideal gas conducted reversibly.