Ideal Gases: What Kind of Work?

[s.p.q.r]

Ideal Gases and "Work"

Hi

When I read up on ideal gases I always find people talking about work extracted from ideal gases. But what kind of work are they talking about?

Cheers.

 

[FredGarvin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(thermodynamics)

 

[Just some guy]

A simple way to think about it is that work is anything that can in principle be carried out by lowering a weight.