Question: Find the work and heat for two different paths. One mole of an ideal monatomic gas ( molar C v = 3 2 R ,

Find the work and heat for two different paths.
One mole of an ideal monatomic gas (molar Cv=32R, molar Cp=52R) is contained in a cylinder with a piston. The gas begins (state 1) with volume, V1=10 liter, pressure, P1=2.47atm, and temperature T1=300K. Two processes ("paths") are carried out, each of which produces the same final values (state 2): V3=15 liter, P3=3.28atm, and T3=600K.
Path A: heat at constant V until P2=4.92 atm and T2=600K, then expand at constant T to the final values above.
Path B: expand at constant T until V2=15L and P2=1.64 atm, then heat at constant V to the final values above.
A useful fact: for an ideal gas, both energy and enthalpy depend only on temperature, and don't change if the temperature doesn't change.
Using the expressions for heat and work from class, find the heat change, qA, and work change, wA, for path A, and the heat change, qB, and work change wB, for path B. Also find the total energy change, U, for each path.
 Find the work and heat for two different paths. One mole

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