Gas in cylinder with piston · PhysicsBowl 2025 #33

Physics · thermodynamics

Problem

A sealed cylindrical container of height h is divided into two equal volumes by a frictionless, thermally insulated piston of negligible mass. The lower half of the container contains n moles of an ideal monatomic gas at an initial temperature T1T_1 and pressure P1P_1. The upper half is initially evacuated [Note: This problem appears to be incomplete in the source text]

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