Isothermal vs Adiabatic - What's the difference?
isothermal | adiabatic |
Of or pertaining to a process that takes place at constant temperature
Of or pertaining to an isotherm
(physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 737:
(physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
* 1961 , Albert Messiah, Quantum Mechanics , Volume II,
As adjectives the difference between isothermal and adiabatic
is that isothermal is of or pertaining to a process that takes place at constant temperature while adiabatic is that occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).As a noun isothermal
is an isotherm.isothermal
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(head)Derived terms
(derived terms) * isothermal annealing * isothermal atmosphere * isothermal calorimiter * isothermal chart * isothermal compression * isothermal equilibrium * isothermal expansion * isothermal flow * isothermal layer * isothermal magnetization * isothermal parameterization * isothermal remanent magnetization * isothermal titration calorimiter * isothermal transformation * isothermal treatmentAnagrams
* * *adiabatic
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(-)- Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
page 740,
- In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change).
