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PRACTICE / Adiabatic processes
An insulated compression stores the work
A monatomic ideal gas with initial pV = 80 J is compressed reversibly and adiabatically to one eighth of its original volume.
What work is done on the gas?
Organize the givens & assumptions
- piVi = 80 J
- Vf/Vi = 1/8
- γ = 5/3
Closed fixed amount of ideal gas, constant stated heat capacities, negligible bulk kinetic and gravitational energy changes, and only pressure–volume work. Heat into the gas and work by the gas are positive.
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