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Vol 5 - Landau Lifshitz Statistical Physics
· Problem 43.5
Ideal Gases
Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · ideal-gas-polytropic-work-heat
Problem
Find the work done on a gas and the quantity of heat which it gains in compression from volume
V
1
V_1
V
1
to
V
2
V_2
V
2
in accordance with the equation
P
V
n
=
a
PV^n = a
P
V
n
=
a
(a polytropic process).
Related theory
Heat Work In Isobaric Gas Expansion
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