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A fluid at a pressure of 3 bar, and with specific volume of 0.18 m³/kg, contained in a cylinder behind a piston exapnds reversibly to a pressure of 0.6 bar according to a law, $p=\frac{C}{v^2}$ where C is a constant. Calculate the work done by the fluid on the piston.

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