Added on:
Mar 18, 2025
User Prompt
An ideal gas undergoes two processes in a piston-cylinder device as follows:
1-2 Polytropic compression from T1 and P1 with a polytropic exponent n and a
compression ratio of r= V1/V2.
2-3 Constant pressure expansion at P3=P2 until V3=V1.
(a) Sketch the processes on a single P-V diagram.