What is happening
You arrive at a diving cylinder being refilled at a coastal station.
The pressure gauge refuses to settle. 0.5 mol of gas sits at 300 K and one atmosphere, and the cylinder volume is set wrong.
Gas compressionRunning
Pressure × volume
2695.25J
nRT
1247.1J
Pressure × volume is over by 1448.15 J
Gas cylinder. Cylinder volume at 0.0266 m³. Pressure × volume 2695.25 J, nRT 1247.1 J. Currently pressure × volume is over by 1448.15 J.
What has to balance