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Chemistry Forums for Students => Physical Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: iScience on September 18, 2014, 08:56:43 PM

Title: Reversible Adiabatic Process
Post by: iScience on September 18, 2014, 08:56:43 PM

We derived an equation for the reversible adiabatic process, and our starting point was..

C_VdT=dU=dW.

how can we use C_V when work is involved? why is this valid?

Title: Re: Reversible Adiabatic Process
Post by: Enthalpy on September 19, 2014, 02:21:52 PM

But first, is it valid?