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A cylinder/piston contains 3 kg of water at 500 kPa, 600°C. The piston has a cross-sectional area of 0.1 m2 and is restrained by a linear spring with spring constant 10 kN/m. The setup is allowed to cool down to room temperature due to heat transfer to the room at 20°C. Calculate the total (water and surroundings) change in entropy for the process.

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State 1: v1 = 0.8041, u1 = 3299.6 , s1 = 7.3522

State 2: T2 & on line in P-V diagram

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