Question 1 of 4 · The First Law in Closed-System Processes · Foundation · About 14 min
Heating a sealed insulated-wall vessel
A rigid vessel contains of air. Electrical heating raises the air temperature from to . Treat the heater energy as heat supplied across the system boundary and take . Determine the boundary work and net heat added.

Given
Mass 2.20 kg
T1 = 298 K
T2 = 410 K
cv = 0.718 kJ/(kg K)
Find
Boundary work
Heat input
Assumptions
Air is a calorically perfect ideal gas; rigid vessel; negligible kinetic changes.
Worked solution
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