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Inside a cylinder having insulating walls and closed at ends

Last updated: 6/7/2023

Inside a cylinder having insulating walls and closed at ends

Inside a cylinder having insulating walls and closed at ends is a movable piston which divides the cylinder into two compartments On one side of the piston is a mass m of a gas and on the other side a mass 2 m of the same gas What fraction of volume of the cylinder will be occupied by the larger mass of the gas when the piston is in equilibrium Consider that the movable piston is conducting so that the temperature is the same throughout 1 2 1 4 4 1 3 3 1 20 20 3