A system doing no work


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Sanjana Borle 2K
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A system doing no work

Postby Sanjana Borle 2K » Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:49 pm

How do we know that a system is not doing work on the surroundings? Would the only case for this be that the system is not expanding?
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Cooper Baddley 1F
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Re: A system doing no work

Postby Cooper Baddley 1F » Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:13 pm

The systems we deal with now only have work when they expand or get compressed.
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Subashni Rajiv 1K
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Re: A system doing no work

Postby Subashni Rajiv 1K » Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:25 pm

In a closed system, energy cannot be transferred to the surroundings.
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Elizabeth Harty 1A
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Re: A system doing no work

Postby Elizabeth Harty 1A » Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:42 pm

I might be wrong but I think work is only done when there is a volume change.
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Robert Tran 1B
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Re: A system doing no work

Postby Robert Tran 1B » Wed Feb 12, 2020 1:41 pm

So far in the course, the only form of work we have learned is the system expanding and pushing against the surroundings.
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