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ThermodynamicsLab 8 (See Chapter 15) involves using thermodynamics to calculate the work done in specific processes and the use this to determine the change in internal energy or the heat transfer via the first law of thermodynamics (ΔE = Q – W).
First start with an isothermal expansion at 2.0 atm from 1.0 L to 4.0 L. An isothermal process means the temperature of a system is constant and there is no internal energy change of the system. The formula describing an isothermal process is W = P*V(0) * ln(V(f)/V(0. (The proof of this formula comes from calculus and
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