Exactly one mole of nitrogen gas confined within a cylinder by a piston is heated from 0°C to 873°C at 1.00 atm.
(a) Calculate the work of expansion of the gas in joules (1 J = 9.87 10-3 atm·L). Assume all the energy is used to do work.
(b) What would be the temperature change if the gas were heated with the same amount of energy in a container of fixed volume? (Assume the specific heat capacity of N2 is 1.00 J/g·K.)