Calculate minimum work necessary to increase area of surface

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Problem

1. Calculate the minimum work necessary to increase the area of the surface of water in a beaker from 0.001 to 0.005 m² at 298 K.

2. A gas container has compressed air at 5 × 10⁵ Pa at 300 K. What is the maximum useful work available from the system per kilogram of air? The atmospheric pressure is 1 × 10⁵ Pa at 300 K?

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