11. Processes, paths and reversibility (or not)

Question 1

What is a state and thermodynamic cyle?

Answer 1

• State: A gas in equilibrium.
• Process: doing something to a gas to change its state
• thermodynamic cycle: ending back to where we started via a series of processes. like an engine heat pump or engine.

Question 2

What is a reversible and irreversible process?

Answer 2

Question 3

What are the names of each of the processes on this graph?

Are they reversible and what are their heat energy equations.

Answer 3