Adiabatic change
What Adiabatic change means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
No heat flows, so pV^γ is constant, where γ = C_p/C_V; the curve is steeper than an isotherm.
Is steeper than the isotherm through the same point.
Topics that use Adiabatic change
- Non-flow processes (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- The p–V diagram (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Isothermal change
- Graphical integration and estimation techniques
- Ideal gas equation
- Isochoric
- Isothermal
- p–V diagram
- Sign conventions for expansion and compression
- Work as the area under a p–V graph
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