The process in Example 5.2 indicates that we need to put work into the system during an expansion process. Determine whether this result is possible (in a thermodynamic sense); if it is, explain this result physically.

EXAMPLE 5.2

 

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One mole of propane gas is to be expanded from 0.001 m to 0.040 m while in contact with a heating bath that keeps the temperature constant at 100C. The expansion is not reversible. The heat extracted from the bath is 10.4 KJ. Using the van der Waals equation of state, determine the work for the expansion.