Why does it take more work to compress a gas adiabatically than isothermally from V 1 to

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Why does it take more work to compress a gas adiabatically than isothermally from Vto V2 ? Why does it take more heat to raise the temperature of a gas isobarically (constant pressure) than isometrically from Tto T2?

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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