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1.21 COMPARISON OF WORK DONE BY AN IDEAL GAS ANISOTHERMAL REVERSIBLE EXPANSION |
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Answer» Consider an ideal gas confined in a cylinder with a frictionless piston. The reversibleexpansion of gas takes place in a finite number of infinitesimally small intermediate steps. If the Pextis infinitesimally less than internalpressure of gas ‘P’ by ‘dP’. Then gas expands reversibly and piston moves through a distance ‘dl’. Since dP is so small, for all practical purposes. Pext. –Pgas =P. One work done by gas in one infinitesimal step (dw) can be expressed as; dw =P´dV.[w = P´DV] dw= PdV. If the gas expands from V1to V2during isothermalreversible expansion. The total amount of work done would be equal to |
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