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Chapter 3 Problem 399

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1-kg of carbon dioxide is compressed from 1 MPa and 2008C to 3 MPa in a piston-cylinder device arranged to execute a polytropic process for which PV 1.2 5 constant. Determine the final temperature treating the carbon dioxide as (a) an ideal gas and (b) a van der Waals gas.

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Title Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach  8 
Author Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles
ISBN 9780073398174

1-kg of carbon dioxide is compressed from 1 MPa and 2008C

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