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Originally Posted by pete c
Some of the 50 cent words in this threat like adiabatic are still confusing my feeble mind, but, I think I get the gist of it.
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An adiabatic process is a process by which:
- work is done to a system, or work is performed by a system; and
- where there is no heat energy either dumped into the system, taken out of the system.
That's it.
In an ideal 4-cycle gasoline engine, the compression and power strokes may be thought of as adiabatic processes.