Questions tagged [adiabatic]
Thermodynamic processes that occur without exchanging heat between the system and its environment.
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Work done by adiabatic expansion derivation
I know that $W=-C_v(T_2-T_1)$ for an adiabatic expansion, and I know how to derive it. However, in this video (https://youtu.be/gaZmZjBtgAM?si=Px3v2qDG3CIdupgi&t=358) it mentions the formula $W=-\...
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Maxwell's relations and adiabats
I was trying to understand problem regarding finding the adiabatic modulus given the isothermal young's modulus. I'm still an amateur in thermodynamics.
I just didn't understand the final step where ...
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Why does adiabatic expansion occur in the Carnot cycle?
Several people have asked this question before and I haven't found any of the explanations even remotely satisfying.
To begin, Let's imagine our system consists of an ideal gas enclosed in a cylinder ...
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Understanding adiabatic elimination in three-level system coupled to EM field
I am having some difficulties understanding the "adiabatic elimination" in the context of atomic physics.
In particular, consider a three-level system with states labeled by $|g_1\rangle$, $|...
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Effect of Uniform Motion on Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas in an Isolated container [duplicate]
“The internal energy of a gas contained in a beaker is U, if the box starts moving with velocity V, then internal energy of the gas will be...”
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How to prove that $\gamma \le 2$ for *causal* relativistic polytrope fluids?
The definition of the adiabatic index of a relativistic polytrope fluid is this:
$$\tag{1}
\gamma = \frac{\rho + p}{p} \, \frac{dp}{d\rho},
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where $\rho$ is the energy density (not the mass density)....
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The work and reversibility of an adiabadically stretched band
I currently working on this. More specifically I have a question about Problem 2.8 (solution on page 34 and exercise on page 25 of the pdf). I have 4 questions
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In the solution for b) the author ...
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Implement Adiabatic Elimination on Hamiltonians?
Adiabatic elimination is the process of truncating a Hamiltonian's Hilbert space to the "slow" states you care about. You throw out the "fast" eigenstates to produce a smaller ...
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Adiabatic free expansion into vacuum
Consider an adiabatic vessel with a partition and a plug in the partition wall. On one side of the partition, there is gas at certain pressure and on the other side of partition there is perfect ...
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Question regarding Adiabatic Process
In an adiabatic process, that is a process in which mathematically $dQ=0$,
$PV^γ=\text{constant}$.
Now my question is that do we have a value for this constant? This is because just like for ...
