How will you calculate work done on an ideal gas in a compression, when a change in pressure is carried out in infinite steps?
o When an ideal gas in a compression, where the change in pressure is carried out in infinite steps i.e. through a reversible process, the work done can be calculated only through the observation of pressure vs volume plot of the process.
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The shaded area in the above graph represents the work done in the process, by calculating the area covered we can calculate the work done.