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Why you not encounter the gravitational potential energy for the internal energy of the gas?
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∙ 12y ago
Potential energy and internal energy are different things and unrelated - except when a process converts one to the other. In most processes involving gases, the density of the gas is so low that changes in potential energy (which depend on total mass times change in height) are not significant in comparison to changes in the internal energy, so we neglect it in out calculations.
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