A cyclist uses a cylinder-type pump to inflate a bicycle tire. Consider the compression process while the inside of the cylinder is sealed (closed system) — from when the piston begins to be pushed in until just before the tire valve opens and air begins to enter the tire.
Treat the air inside the cylinder as a single thermodynamic system, modeled as an ideal gas with constant-volume molar heat capacity CV=25R (R is the gas constant).
In the initial state, the air inside the cylinder has pressure P1 and volume V1. After the cyclist pushes the piston in, the air is compressed, and just before the valve opens, the pressure is P2 and the volume is V2.
Let Win be the work done on the gas by the cyclist (external agent) during this compression. Due to the temperature rise caused by compression, the air releases a heat Qout to the outside through the cylinder wall.
Find the heat Qout[J] released by the air to the outside during this process.
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Give the value of Qout[J] as a positive integer.
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