A piston-cylinder configuration contains 2 kg of air at standard
atmospheric pressure and 25C. The piston is held by a linear
spring. The air is now heated until the volume becomes 4 m
and the pressure 200 kPa. What is the final temperature in C?
What is the work done in the process? Show the work done also
graphically in the diagram.
A steel container with a volume of 300 L contains 3 kg of water
at 20 C. The water is heated. What is the temperature at which
all liquid water is gone, to five digits accurate? What is the work
done by the water in the process? Show the process in the
diagram and so identify the work done graphically.
A constant pressure cylinder contains 2 kg water at 4 bar that
is cooling down. The water is just starting to condense at the
start of the process. At the end of the process the volume is half
that at the start.
Find the initial phase.
Construct the final phase in the diagram. Label all
lines to do so with their values. Do not put more in
the diagram than is needed to construct the phase.
Find the final temperature and volume to 5 digits accurate.
Find the work done by the substance in the process.
Show the work done graphically in the diagram. How
about the sign?
Consider a Stirling cycle with ideal-gas nitrogen as the working
substance. The nitrogen is kept in a piston/cylinder combination
during the entire cycle.
At the start of the cycle, the volume is 0.2 m of
nitrogen at 5 bar and 127C. The nitrogen is now allowed to
isothermally expand to a pressure of 100 kPa. (Heat must be added
during the expansion to keep the temperature at 127dg.) What is
the final volume? What is the work done by the nitrogen in this
process?
Next the nitrogen is allowed to cool to room temperature,
27C, while kept at the volume that you just computed. Find
the work done by the nitrogen in this second process?
Next the nitrogen is compressed back to 0.2 m, but
sufficiently slowly that it stays at the room temperature of
27C. What is the work done by the nitrogen in this process?
Next the nitrogen is heated back to 127C while being kept
at volume 0.2 m, thus returning to the original state
and completing the cycle. What is the work done during this
final process?
What is the net work produced by the nitrogen during
the complete cycle?
Show the process in a very neat diagram and graphically
indicate the work.