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A storage building with well-insulated walls and containing 750 m3 of air at 315 K is...

A storage building with well-insulated walls and containing 750 m3 of air at 315 K is heated at constant pressure (atmospheric). Consider air to be an ideal diatomic gas.

(a) Determine the energy (in kJ) required to increase the temperature of the air in the building by 2.30°C.

____kj

(b)Determine the mass (in kg) this amount of energy could lift through a height 2.70 m.

_____kg

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