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ic Rev. Confirming Pages Exp. 3 Heat-Capacity Ratios for Gases 109 A. Adiabatic Expansion Method For the reversible adiabatic expansion of a perfect gas, the change in energy content is related to the change in volume by RT dE = ~pdv = ~" dv = ~nkT d nv (4) Moreover, since E for a perfect gas is a…