Fundamentals of Physics Extended (10th Edition)

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Chapter 20 - Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Problems - Page 604: 12

Answer

$n=3.5 mol$

Work Step by Step

We know that: $\Delta S=S_f-S_i=nR\ln \frac{v_f}{v_i}+nC_V\ln \frac{T_f}{T_i}$ As $T_i=T_f$ so $\ln(1)=0$ and thus the second term becomes zero and we obtain: $\Delta S=nR\ln \frac{v_f}{v_i}$ This can be rearranged as: $n=\frac{\Delta S}{R\ln (\frac{v_f}{v_i})}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $n=3.5 mol$
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