Vol 5 - Landau Lifshitz Statistical Physics · Problem 43.12

Ideal Gases

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · maximum-work-connecting-vessels-different-volumes

Problem

Determine the maximum work that can be obtained by connecting vessels containing two identical ideal gases at the same temperature

T_0

and with equal numbers of particles

N

but having different volumes

V_1

and

V_2