Question: # 1 9 . 5 1 :: An air pump has a cylinder 0 . 2 5 0 m long with a movable piston. The

#19.51 :: An air pump has a cylinder 0.250 m long with a movable piston. The pump is used to compress air from the atmosphere (at absolute pressure 1.01105Pa) into a very large tank at gauge pressure 3.80105Pa.(For air, use CV=20.8JmolK.) Remember to solve as algebraically as possible before plugging in numbers.
(a) The piston begins the compression stroke at the open end of the cylinder. How far down the length of the cylinder has the piston moved when " air first begins to flow from the cylinder into the tank? Assume that the compression is adiabatic.
(b) If the air is taken into the pump at 27C, what is the temperature of the compressed air?
(c) How much work does the pump do in putting 20.0 mol of air into the tank?
(d) Draw a pV-diagram of this process.
Be sure to use the 1st Law for part c.
# 1 9 . 5 1 :: An air pump has a cylinder 0 . 2 5

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