when you pump a bicycle pump quickly. the compression is almost adiabatic becaus
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when you pump a bicycle pump quickly. the compression is almost adiabatic
because there isn't much time for the gas exchange energy with anything. During a single pump, you do 36J of work on 4.26 x 10^-4 kg of air inside the cylinder. How much does the internal energy of the air inside the pump change during a single pump?
specific heat of air= 0.718 J/g-deg C.
Explanation / Answer
work done = mass of air * R*(T2-T1)/(Y-1)
for adiabatic compression. Q=0
from 1st law of thermodynamics, deltaU= Q+W,
deltaU= W= 36 Joules
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