Problem P. 4121. (December 2008)
P. 4121. A piston, which can move without friction, closes a sample of Helium in a vertical, thermally insulated cylinder, which is closed at its bottom, and the cross-section of which is A=2 dm2. Above the piston there is a fixed stand to which an unstretched spring of spring constant D=2000 N/m is attached, whose bottom end is at a distance of d=2 dm from the piston when the volume of the gas is V0=8 dm3. The external pressure is p0=105 Pa, g=10 m/s2. The gas confined in the cylinder is heated with an electric heating element which is automatically controlled such that the piston is continuously moving with a constant speed of v0=5 cm/s.
a) Determine and plot the instantaneous power of the heating element as a function of the time, while the volume of the gas increases from V0 to V1=18 dm3.
b) Determine the heat transferred by the electric heating element to the expanding gas in the process.
(5 pont)
Deadline expired on January 12, 2009.
Statistics:
66 students sent a solution. 5 points: Bartha Zsolt, Czeller Ildikó, Fridrich Veronika, Hegedűs Csaba, Illés Dorottya, Maknics András, Nagy 111 Miklós, Vuchetich Bálint. 4 points: Borsos 607 Zalán, Csányi Gergely, Fonai Dániel, Galzó Ákos Ferenc, Harnos Balázs, Hartstein Máté, Jakab Dávid, Kaposvári István, Kovács 235 Gábor, Kovács Benjámin, Krämer Zsolt, Kungl 008 Ákos, Kunsági-Máté Éva, Lovas Lia Izabella, Mayer Martin János, Najbauer Eszter Éva, Németh Gábor , Patartics Bálint, Pázmán Koppány, Rácz Viktor, Sós Attila Róbert, Szabó 928 Attila, Trényi Róbert. 3 points: 14 students. 2 points: 7 students. 1 point: 9 students. 0 point: 3 students. Unfair, not evaluated: 2 solutionss.
Problems in Physics of KöMaL, December 2008