Polytropic process
Thermodynamic process that involves heat and work transfer between the system and its surroundings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Pantropic" redirects here. For the term used in biogeography, see Pantropical.
"Polytropic" redirects here. For polytropism in viruses, see Amphotropism.
A polytropic process is a thermodynamic process that obeys the relation:
where p is the pressure, V is volume, n is the polytropic index, and C is a constant. The polytropic process equation describes expansion and compression processes which include heat transfer.