adiabatic processes

An adiabatic process is a thermodynamic change where no heat is exchanged with the surroundings. Think of it as a process happening so quickly or in so insulated a system that heat transfer doesn’t occur during the change. For example, rapidly compressing or expanding a gas in an insulated container causes its temperature and pressure to change, but without gaining or losing heat to the environment. This concept is important in engines, meteorology, and physics, as it describes how energy transformations occur without heat exchange, influencing how systems behave under rapid or well-insulated conditions.