Question

What is an adiabatic process? Show that its gas equation is TVɤ = constant.

Answer 1

An adiabatic process occurs without transferring heat or mass between a thermodynamic system and its surroundings. Unlike an isothermal process, an adiabatic process transfers energy to the surroundings only as work. It also conceptually undergirds the theory used to expound the first law of thermodynamics and is therefore a key thermodynamic concept.