1. A cylinder/piston contains 0.1 lbm methane gas at 15 psia, 70 F. The gas is compressed reversibly to a pressure of 120 psia. Calculate the work required if the process is adiabatic.
2. Helium in a piston/cylinder at 70 F, 20 psia is brought to 720 R in a reversible polytropic process with exponent n = 1.25. You may assume that helium is an ideal gas with constant specific heat. Find the final pressure and both the specific heat transfer and the specific work.