Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:37 p.m. An adiabatic process is a process in which a material undergoes a change in its physical state without releasing or extracting any heat from the atmosphere. In other words, dq = 0 in the equation below, where dq = change in thermal energy (this is the first law of […]
ATMOS 301: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:54 p.m. Our third law that we will concern ourselves with is the first law of thermodynamics. It will be the third of the “big six” we will look at for now. Here’s the law. This law says that the heat added to a certain mass of a gas is equal […]
