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  2. Reversible process (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Reversible adiabatic process: The state on the left can be reached from the state on the right as well as vice versa without exchanging heat with the environment. In some cases, it may be important to distinguish between reversible and quasistatic processes. Reversible processes are always quasistatic, but the converse is not always true. [2]

  3. Adiabatic process - Wikipedia

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    An adiabatic process (adiabatic from Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos) 'impassable') is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment. Unlike an isothermal process, an adiabatic process transfers energy to the surroundings only as work.

  4. Isentropic process - Wikipedia

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    This process is idealized because reversible processes do not occur in reality; thinking of a process as both adiabatic and reversible would show that the initial and final entropies are the same, thus, the reason it is called isentropic (entropy does not change).

  5. Thermodynamic cycle - Wikipedia

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    It is adiabatic (no heat nor mass exchange) and reversible. Isenthalpic : The process that proceeds without any change in enthalpy or specific enthalpy. Polytropic : The process that obeys the relation P V n = c o n s t a n t {\displaystyle PV^{n}=\mathrm {constant} } .

  6. Adiabatic invariant - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, an adiabatic process is a change that occurs without heat flow; it may be slow or fast. A reversible adiabatic process is an adiabatic process that occurs slowly compared to the time to reach equilibrium. In a reversible adiabatic process, the system is in equilibrium at all stages and the entropy is constant. In the 1st half ...

  7. Carnot cycle - Wikipedia

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    Isentropic (reversible adiabatic) expansion of the gas (isentropic work output). For this step (2 to 3 on Figure 1, B to C in Figure 2) the gas in the engine is thermally insulated from both the hot and cold reservoirs, thus they neither gain nor lose heat. It is an adiabatic process. The gas continues to expand with reduction of its pressure ...

  8. Heat capacity ratio - Wikipedia

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    This ratio gives the important relation for an isentropic (quasistatic, reversible, adiabatic process) process of a simple compressible calorically-perfect ideal gas: is constant. Using the ideal gas law, =: is constant

  9. Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    The equality holds in the reversible case [70] and the strict inequality holds in the irreversible case, with T surr as the temperature of the heat bath (surroundings) here. The reversible case is used to introduce the state function entropy. This is because in cyclic processes the variation of a state function is zero from state functionality.