conditions for free expansion?
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Re: conditions for free expansion?
If I remember correctly, free expansion occurs when a gas is being heated in a vacuum. It is called free expansion because there is no external pressure, so the gas can expand without opposing a force (no work is done), so it is said to expand freely.
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Re: conditions for free expansion?
For free expansion there is no work being done because it is done in a vacuum state and thus it is zero for work.
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Re: conditions for free expansion?
No work occurs under free expansion, because there is no external pressure applied under a vacuum state.
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