The temperature of a gas contain in a closed vessel increased by 2C(2 Degree celcius) when the pressure is increased by 2%. What is the initial temperature of the gas?

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Gió
Jan 15, 2015

100°C

I made some assumptions about your problem:
1) constant volume (closed vessel);
2) I can consider the gas as ideal so I can use:
#PV=nRT#
With this conditions I can write:
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Substituting for #T_f# and #P_f#, you get:
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