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Jun 6, 2019 at 21:55 vote accept Nova
Jun 4, 2019 at 8:58 answer added Adrian Howard timeline score: 0
Feb 1, 2017 at 14:09 history edited Qmechanic
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Feb 1, 2017 at 9:52 comment added Steeven "because heat doesn't spontaneously arise." It is a mistake to think that heat must be there for temperature to rise. Other kinds of energy transfer can also cause temperature change, for example work.
Feb 1, 2017 at 9:51 comment added Farcher Boyle's law is for an isothermal change not an adiabatic one.
Feb 1, 2017 at 9:10 answer added Aritra timeline score: 4
Feb 1, 2017 at 6:33 comment added Deep When you say temperature would NOT increase, you are probably invoking the fact that internal energy of the ideal gas does not change and so neither does its temperature. This means that neither is the gas doing any work nor is any work being done on it. But then tell me, how would the volume of system increase spontaneously?
Feb 1, 2017 at 3:17 comment added user854 physics.stackexchange.com/q/245808 may or may not be helpful. If you push the piston down (ie, decrease the volume), you are doing work on the molecules in the gas.
Feb 1, 2017 at 2:25 history asked Nova CC BY-SA 3.0