[soccersara]

Hi everyone,

I am having some troubles solving the question below, any help would be greatly appreciated. Specifically, I am having trouble because many of the values are not specified in the question (e.g. the final volume, the number of moles, the temperature, etc.) and I am unsure how to find them without making huge assumptions that I can't back up. This is my first physical chemistry class so I am very new to this, please bear with me!

Calculate the work, w, (in J) when 5.2 litre of an ideal gas at an initial pressure of 80.8 atm is expanded isothermally to a final pressure of 2.72 atm against a constant external pressure of 2.72 atm.

Thanks!

[Borek]

Hint: use Boyle's Law.