Given a Van der Waals gas with state equation: (P+N2aV2)(V−Nb)=NkT, show that the equation of an adiabatic process is: (V−Nb)TCV=constant.
I began by setting đQ=0 in dU=đQ+đW, one then gets 0=dU+P dV.
Now given U=32NkT−N2aV, I plugged it's derivatives into dU=(∂U∂T)V dT+(∂U∂V)T dV, from which I obtained 0=CV dt+(P+N2aV2)T dV=CV dT+NkTV−Nb dV, using V đW's equation.
Dividing by T and integrating gives C=logTCV+log(V−Nb)Nk, which is equivalent to C′=(V−Nb)NkTCV, for C and C′ constants.
Now the expression so obtained seems very similar to what I was looking for, but I can't seem to get rid of the Nk exponent. Anyone got a different approach to this problem, or a way to get the desired formula?
Answer
The correct answer is (V−Nb)TCV/Nk=const, the problem statement is just wrong.
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