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Homework Statement
One mole of a certain ideal gas is contained under a weightless piston of a vertical cylinder at a temperature ##T##. The space over the piston opens into the atmosphere. What work has to be performed in order to increase isothermally the gas volume under the piston ##n## times by slowly raising the piston? The friction of piston against the cylinder walls is negligibly small.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Work done in isothermal process is
[tex]nRT\ln\frac{V_2}{V_1}[/tex]
In the given question, ##n=1 \text{mol}## and ##V_2=nV_1##. Hence work done is:
[tex]RT\ln n[/tex]
but this is wrong.