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A Small High-Performance Internal Combustion Engine Has Six Cylinders with a Total

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A small high-performance internal combustion engine has six cylinders with a total nominal displacement (volume) of 3.60 L and a 10:1 compression ratio. How much work in joules is done when a gas in one cylinder of the engine expands at constant temperature against an opposing pressure of 60.0 atm during the engine cycle? Assume that the gas is ideal, the piston is frictionless, and no energy is lost as heat.


A) 1.32×103 J
B) -3.28×103 J
C) 7.84×103 J
D) -7.84×103 J
E) 3.28×103 J

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