Question

There are two piston-cylinder systems that each contain 1 kg of an idea gas at a pressure of 300 kPa and temperature of 350 K. The two systems then undergo two different processes:
System 1 undergoes process 1 as follows:
Isobaric heating to 500 K, then compressed to a pressure of 500 kPa and a temperature of 600 K.

System 2 undergoes process 2 as follows:
Directly compressed in one step to a pressure 500 kPa and a temperature of 600 K

We "measure" the entropy of each system before and after the process. Which system had the biggest entropy change?

a. System 1
b. System 2
c. Entropy change is the same for both systems

Answer 1

Answer:

Entropy change is same for both systems because entropy is a state function i.e., it doesn't depend on the path by which the system arrived at it's present state (500 kPa, 600 K) from initial state (300 kPa, 350 K) .

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