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1.21 COMPARISON OF WORK DONE BY AN IDEAL GAS ANISOTHERMAL REVERSIBLE EXPANSION

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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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