Answer to Question #103947 in Physical Chemistry for Dashrath

Question

0.25 mol of an ideal monoatomic gas undergoes isothermal expansion from a
volume of 2.0 dm3
to 10 dm3
at 27 oC. Calculate the maximum work that can be
obtained from this process.

Answer 1

W_max = nRTln(V₂/V₁) = 0.25 * 8.314 * (27+273) * ln(10/2) = 1004 J