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Is sound really adiabatic because it is a fast process?
In many books I have consumed so far there is the statement that sound is adiabatic because heat transfer does not have nearly enough time to reach isothermal equilibrium. Doesn't this contradict ...
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Sound waves as an adiabatic process and defining pressure inside vibrating columns of air
In a MIT OCW video a professor goes on to derive the sound wave equation.
For this he takes a horizontal air column and assumes a pressure difference at its end which drives the gas column to the ...
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Why are sound waves adiabatic?
I want to know why we can treat sound waves as an adiabatic process. Precisely, I know that pressure and density vibrations occur so fast that molecules have no time to exchange energy (I might be ...
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