David Maloney's Physics Examples: Thermo Example 4-Work Done by Ideal Gas

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This item is an annotated homework problem for introductory physics students relating to the amount of work done by, or on, an ideal gas. The author provides explicit explanations of the steps required to solve for net work during four stages involving isobaric and non-isobaric processes.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - General - Models = Ideal Gas	- Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Problem/Problem Set = Tutorial

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Keywords:: homework examples, homework problems, ideal gas, isobaric process, physics problems, work
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created February 22, 2008 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:: August 10, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 3, 2007

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