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Chapter 4 Problem 4117

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A pistoncylinder device contains 0.8 kg of an ideal gas. Now, the gas is cooled at constant pressure until its temperature decreases by 108C. If 16.6 kJ of compression work is done during this process, determine the gas constant and the molar mass of the gas. Also, determine the constantvolume and constant-pressure specific heats of the gas if its specific heat ratio is 1.667.

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

A pistoncylinder device contains 0.8 kg of an ideal gas.

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