A gas at a steady 1.4 × 10⁵ Pa is squeezed from 8.0 to 3.5 litres.
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A gas at a steady is squeezed from to litres. Find the work done by the gas. Who does the work, the gas or its surroundings?
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Work done by a gas is the area under its path on a pressure-volume graph. At a steady pressure ; along a straight line, the average pressure times ; at a steady temperature . Expanding gives positive work, squeezing negative. .
The worked solution
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Answer: : the surroundings do of work on the gas.
Watch out. A squeeze always gives negative work in our convention.
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