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Posted by john on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8:35am.

air having a pressure of 40 psig and a volume of 8 cu ft expands isotermally to a pressure of 10 psig find the external work performed during the expasion

Thermodynamics or Chemistry - help required - MathMate, Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 5:53pm
Note: psig means gauge pressure, equal to pressure in excess of atmospheric pressure.

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