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Work done in an adiabatic process between a given pair of end states depends on

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Shubham Gaurav
Shubham Gaurav 8 years ago
End states are determined by Internal Energy (U) levels at those states
i.e. dQ= dW + dU

For an adiabatic process dQ= zero.
Therfore |dW| = |dU|. In words, work done in an adiabatic process depends only on the end states (determined by U).
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