An ideal monatomic gas containing moles is expanded reversibly and isothermally at…

CHEMISTRY · Subjective · AP · Chemistry · Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry · Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry

Problem

An ideal monatomic gas containing

n

moles is expanded reversibly and isothermally at temperature

T

from an initial volume

V_i

to a final volume

3V_i

. Show that the entropy change of the gas is

nR \ln 3