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Posted by maria on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 12:59pm.

A diesel engine works at a high compression ratio to compress air until it reaches a temperature high enough to ignite the diesel fuel. Suppose the compression ratio (ratio of volumes) of a specific diesel engine is 19 to 1. If air enters a cylinder at 1 atm and is compressed adiabatically, the compressed air reaches a pressure of 66.0 atm. Assuming that the air enters the engine at room temperature (22.9°C) and that the air can be treated as an ideal gas, find the temperature (in K) of the compressed air.

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