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What is the point of modeling an adiabatic process when it can never exist?

April 26, 2017adiabatic exist modeling point process

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What is the point of modeling an adiabatic process when it can never exist?

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(1 student) It is a useful idealization and many processes indeed are closely approximated as adiabatic (we will use this frequently for example for engines and rockets).