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3.2 Exercise 11

Avg difficulty 2.5

An ideal gas expands quasi-statically and isothermally from a state with pressure p and volume V to a state with volume 4V. Show that the work done by the gas in the expansion is pV(ln 4).

OpenStax University Physics Volume 2, 3.2 Work, Heat, and Internal Energy, exercise 11

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