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Can the work in a isochoric process be non zero?
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[QUOTE="Chestermiller, post: 5509427, member: 345636"] Yes. Yes. If the tank is insulated, then the process is adiabatic. Yes. Isochoric means no P-V work. In Joule's famous experiment, he ran a paddle wheel inside an insulated container of water, by attaching the paddle wheel to a rope and pulley arrangement, driven by a descending weight. The change in potential energy of the weight was equal to the work that the paddle wheel did on the water (and the change in internal energy of the water). He measured the rise in the water temperature as a result of the viscous dissipation of the mechanical energy. By doing this, he was able to establish the equivalence between the work done in N-m (Joules) and the change in internal energy of the water. And he was thereby able to determine the relationship between the change in internal energy and the temperature rise. [/QUOTE]
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