Piston-cylinder

A hydraulic crane supports a mass of 500 kg with its piston-cylinder actuator, inclined at 60° with horizontal, as shown in the figure below. The diameter of the piston is 30 cm an...

A piston-cylinder arrangement shown in the figure has a stop located 2 m above the base. The cylinder initially contains air at 140 kPa and 350 °C and the piston is resting in equi...

Consider a fully adiabatic piston-cylinder arrangement as shown in the figure. The piston is massless and cross-sectional area of the cylinder is A. The fluid inside the cylinder i...

A piston-cylinder device initially contains $$0.4\,{m^3}$$ of air (to be treated as an ideal gas) at $$100$$ $$kPa$$ and $${80^ \circ }C.$$ The air is now isothermally compressed t...

A frictionless piston-cylinder device contains a gas initially at $$0.8MPa$$ and $$0.015$$ $${m^3}.$$ It expands quasi-statically at constant temperature to a final volume of $$0.0...

$$A$$ gas expands in a frictionless piston-cylinder arrangement. The expansion process is very slow, and is resisted by an ambient pressure of $$100kPa.$$ During the expansion proc...