Question

What is the maximum value of gamma in adiabatic process?

Answer 1

Explanation:

The relative amount of compression/expansion energy that goes into temperature  versus pressure can be characterized by the heat capacity ratio

where  is the specific heat (also called heat capacity) at constant pressure, while  is the specific heat at constant volume. The specific heat, in turn, is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of the gas by one degree. It is derived in statistical thermodynamics [139] that, for an ideal gas, we have,