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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Entropy change of an ideal gas that undergoes an irreversible adiabatic (free) expansion?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I think I got the first question, but I have no idea how to answer the second, and how it differs from the first.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I suspect that the entropy change is the same in both cases. The starting point is dU=TdS-pdV in both cases. In the isothermal case you can say that dU=0 because for an ideal gas U is a function of T only, and T doesn't change (isothermal expansion) Thus dS =pdV/T etc In the second case I think dU=0 again, can you explain why ?

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