JEE Advanced 2016JEE Adv 2016 Paper 2, Paper 2PhysicsHardThermodynamics163× since 2002
A gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a movable frictionless piston. Its initial thermodynamic state at pressure and volume changes to a final state at and in an adiabatic quasi-static process, such that constant. Consider another thermodynamic process that brings the system from the same initial state to the same final state in two steps: an isobaric expansion at followed by an isochoric (isovolumetric) process at volume . The amount of heat supplied to the system in the two-step process is approximately