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1. Consider an ideal gas contained in a piston-cylinder arrangement.The gas expands following a polytropic process where n is constant from state 1 to state 2. Is the work into or out of the system and why? Create a P-V diagram to prove your answer. Hint: if the gas expands, what direction on the p-v plot is point 2 with respect to point 1?

Fig: 1