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Roger Wilco
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Homework Statement
just to get me started! This is killing me...
I need to derive the formula for an work done W of an adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas: [tex]W=\frac{1}{1-\gamma}[p_2V_2-p_1V_1][/tex]
Using the fact that [tex]p_1V_1^{\gamma}=p_2V_2^{\gamma}=constant[/tex]
thanks
RW