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Offline billy maize

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Thermodynamics
« on: August 31, 2009, 08:45:03 PM »
Consider a mixture of air and gas in a cylinder with a piston. The original volume is 40cm^3. If the combustion of this mixturereleases 950J of energy, to what volume will the gases expand against a constant pressure of 650torr if all the energy of combustion is converted into work to push back the piston?

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Re: Thermodynamics
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2009, 01:36:12 AM »
It's quite easy to do... what's the expression for the work done in an isobaric process? (if you don't know check on your textbook or here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobaric_process)
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