Consider a Process Carried Out on 1

question 37

Multiple Choice

Consider a process carried out on 1.00 mol of a monatomic ideal gas by the following two different pathways. The first pathway is A (3.00 atm, 20.0 L) to C (1.00 atm, 20.0 L) to D (1.00 atm, 50.0 L) ; and the second pathway is A (3.00 atm, 20.0 L) to B (3.00 atm, 50.0 L) to D (1.00 atm, 50.0 L) . In each case, the gas is taken from state A to state D.
-Calculate q_AC.

• A) 60 L•atm
• B) 100 L•atm
• C) -60 L•atm
• D) -100 L•atm
• E) none of these