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Calculate deltaS total for the isothermal irreversible freeexpansion of 1.00 mol of ideal gas from 8.0 L to 20.0 L at 298K

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From the first law we know that dE q w where q is the thermal energy added to a system from the surroundings and w is the work done on the system by the surroundings and dE is the differential change in the internal energy of the system The internal energy of an ideal gas depends only on temperature so in an isothermal process there can be no change in the internal energy and dE 0 This implies that q w For purely    See Answer
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