Adiabatic Compression

Compress or expand a gas adiabatically (no heat exchange). The temperature rises on compression and falls on expansion — this is why a bicycle pump gets warm and diesel engines ignite without a spark.

Temperature
300 K
Pressure
1.00 atm
Volume
1.00 L
Entropy ΔS
0.000
PV^γ = const (γ = 1.4 for diatomic gas)