Adiabatic System
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Adiabatic System
Hi! I understand through the lecture that an adiabatic system means no heat flow, but I'm a little confused on how this relates to the notes right before it, which was the reversible pathway and the irreversible pathway. Can someone explain this please? Thank you very much!
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Re: Adiabatic System
I think professor lavelle just included adiabatic because he stated that some textbooks/questions use that term. It just means there is no heat flow in the system, therefore q = 0. In regards to reversible/irreversible reactions, reversible reactions are isothermal which means there is no change in temperature in the system, but both reversible and irreversible reactions still have heat flow into it.
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Re: Adiabatic System
Also adding onto this question if that’s okay, do adiabatic and isothermal mean the same thing?
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Re: Adiabatic System
Leonardo Le Merle 1D wrote:Also adding onto this question if that’s okay, do adiabatic and isothermal mean the same thing?
they do not! adiabatic means there is no transfer of heat, so q=0.
isothermal means that the temperature remains constant, so deltaT=0.
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