A microscopic, mechanical derivation for the adiabatic gas relation
arXiv:physics/0310015 · doi:10.1119/1.1629088
Abstract
It is shown that the ideal gas adiabatic relation, P*V^gamma=constant, can be derived by considering the motion of a particle bouncing elastically between a stationary wall and a moving wall.
To be published in American Journal of Physics, 12 pages, 3 figures