No, "adiabatic" means no heat is added or removed. The heating that results from compression will make this case require the most work.
An isothermal compression will require that the pressure decreases during the compression, since p = RT/V and T stays the same
Work done on the gas is the integral of -p dV . You will get the smallest integral when p decreases.
A quantity of an ideal gas is compressed to half" its initial volume. The process may be adiabatic, isothermal or isobaric. Rank those three processes in order of the work required of an external agent, least to greatest.
doesn't adiabatic mean no work, so it would be the least, correct? and what about the other two?
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