Assignment:
Consider a situation in which the surroundings heat a system and the system contains a gas which expands against a piston causing the piston to move.
a. Is there a potential to do work in this system?
b. Is work done?
c. What would need to be true for work to be done?
d. If the heat was increased would more or less work be done or would the system be unaffected?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.