I'm having trouble understanding what happens to the internal energy of an ideal gas being compressed adiabatically.
If DU = DQ + DW,
then as we do work PdV compressing the gas, since in adiabatic processes DQ=0, W the change in internal energy is non-zero, so U must increase.
But if we're talking about an ideal gas, as I keep hearing, (such as in this lecture where we're told an ideal gas shouldnt increase in temperature when we compress it in a bicycle pump:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14939TMTCE#t=36m30s
U is a function only of T, and so T ought not to vary as we increase the pressure, because it ought to be compensated for by a (countering) decrease in V, in accordance with the Ideal Gas Law: PV = nRT.
So should U stay constant or should it increase under adiabatic compression if the gas is ideal?
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks a lot!
If DU = DQ + DW,
then as we do work PdV compressing the gas, since in adiabatic processes DQ=0, W the change in internal energy is non-zero, so U must increase.
But if we're talking about an ideal gas, as I keep hearing, (such as in this lecture where we're told an ideal gas shouldnt increase in temperature when we compress it in a bicycle pump:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14939TMTCE#t=36m30s
U is a function only of T, and so T ought not to vary as we increase the pressure, because it ought to be compensated for by a (countering) decrease in V, in accordance with the Ideal Gas Law: PV = nRT.
So should U stay constant or should it increase under adiabatic compression if the gas is ideal?
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks a lot!