Thermodynamic Processes

This short heading introduces the four specific, named thermodynamic processes developed across the rest of section 8.8: isothermal (constant temperature), adiabatic (zero heat exchange), isobaric (constant pressure) and isochoric (constant volume) -- each obtained by holding one particular quantity fixed (or, for the adiabatic case, forbidding heat exchange entirely) while letting the remaining state variables change, culminating in the summary comparison table (Table 8.4) and the discus …