Inflation causes things to cost more, and for our money to buy less (hence your grandparents saying "in my day, you could buy a cup of coffee for a nickel"). suppose inflation decreases the value of money by 2% each year. in other words, if you have $1 this year, next year it will only buy you $0.98 worth of stuff. how much will $100 buy you in 15 years?

Which of the following statements are true? (select all that apply.) a quasi-static process is one in which the system is never far from being in equilibrium. when a system can go from state 1 to state 2 by several different processes, the amount of heat absorbed by the system will be the same for all processes. the internal energy of a given amount of an ideal gas depends only on its absolute temperature. when a system can go from state 1 to state 2 by several different processes, the work done on the system will be the same for all processes. when a system can go from state 1 to state 2 by several different processes, the change in the internal energy of the system will be the same for all processes. for any substance that expands when heated, its cp is greater than its cv.