David Maloney’s Physics Examples: Thermo Example 3-Ideal Gas Behavior

This item is an annotated homework problem involving an ideal gas contained in a cylinder with a movable piston. The author provides explicit explanations of isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, and isochoric processes to guide users in solving for a number of unknowns. This item is part of a larger collection of introductory physics homework examples.