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adiabatic process

vr.tr.adiabatic-process · ACT.PRC

Let an agent explain adiabatic processes and their equations, distinguish adiabatic from isothermal and isentropic processes, relay applications in engines, atmosphere and sound, and help compute adiabatic changes.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain adiabatic processes and their equations, distinguish adiabatic from isothermal and isentropic processes, relay applications in engines, atmosphere and sound, and help compute adiabatic changes.

A thermodynamic process in which no heat is exchanged between a system and its surroundings, so that changes in internal energy come only from work, as in the rapid expansion or compression of a gas, the rise of air parcels in the atmosphere and the compression stroke of an engine; a reversible adiabatic process is isentropic, and the adiabatic relations between pressure, volume and temperature underlie engine cycles, meteorology and acoustics.

What it is for: Describing energy changes without heat exchange.

It can be explain the concept and equations; distinguish from related processes; relay applications; compute adiabatic changes.

Distinguishing features

Zero heat transfer

Work changes internal energy

Isentropic when reversible

Steeper than isotherms

What it looks like

Not a visible object; curves on pressure-volume diagrams steeper than isotherms.

Physical character

adiabatic relation: P V to the gamma is constant formula - ideal gas, reversible

dry adiabatic lapse rate: about 9.8 K/km - in the atmosphere

How it is recognised

No heat exchange with surroundings

Reversible case is isentropic

Isothermal processes keep temperature constant; isentropic processes keep entropy constant

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

thermodynamic process

is contrasted with - constant temperature

isothermal process

is related to - the reversible case

isentropic process

is used in - as two of its steps

Carnot cycle

In practice

Families and kinds

reversible adiabatic or isentropic processes

irreversible adiabatic processes such as free expansion

adiabatic expansion and compression

adiabatic processes in the atmosphere and lapse rates

adiabatic approximations in quantum mechanics as a related use

Standards and regulation

No regulation; standard thermodynamics conventions

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing adiabatic with isothermal or isentropic

Applying ideal gas relations outside validity

Sign convention errors

Also called

adiabatic expansionisentropic process

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.adiabatic-process

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Define What an adiabatic process is.

Science.

Definition

Definition and distinctions.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is an adiabatic process, and how does it differ from isothermal and isentropic processes? definition
  2. Is the process adiabatic, isothermal, isentropic or something else? boundary

Equations

Equations.

Equations

Equations.

  1. What relations govern reversible adiabatic changes of an ideal gas? definition
  2. Which entry fits the heat capacity ratio? action
Compute Computation.

Computation.

Calculate

Calculating changes.

Calculate

Calculate.

  1. How are final temperature, pressure and work computed for an adiabatic change? action
  2. What is the result for the values in question? measurement

Irreversible

Irreversible cases.

Irreversible

Irreversible.

  1. How do irreversible adiabatic processes such as free expansion differ? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Apply Applications.

Application.

Engines

Engines and cycles.

Engines

Engines.

  1. How do adiabatic steps appear in Carnot, Otto and Diesel cycles? provenance
  2. Which entry fits thermodynamic cycle? action

Atmosphere

Atmosphere and sound.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere.

  1. How do adiabatic lapse rates and the speed of sound depend on adiabatic behaviour? provenance
  2. Which entry fits lapse rate? action
Context History and teaching.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the adiabatic concept develop with Laplace, Poisson and Carnot? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of thermodynamics? action

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How are adiabatic processes taught, and which misconceptions arise? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should isentropic process be a separate primary entry?
  • How should thermodynamics references be linked?
  • How should the quantum adiabatic theorem be cross-referenced?