Could you give me a conceptual
example to illustrate the difference
between an adiabatic process and an isothermic process? I have read in
the text book what each is, but I can't think of a real world example of
each process.
A: Isothermal
process is one when system temperature is constant (NO TEMPERATURE CHANGE)
during the process, for example, when you boil water in a
constant-pressure cylinder with piston, temperature does not change but you add
heat, so it is not adiabatic. Adiabatic refers to NO HEAT TRANSFER
and is irrelevant whether temperature changes or not, for example, if you
compress a gas in a thermally insulated cylinder its temperature will increase
without any heat added from the surrounding.
