What Are Thermodynamic

Processes?
Thermodynamics is the study of the movement of
heat. If you touch a block of ice, it isn't always pleasant
unless it's a really hot day. If you touch a hot pan out of
the oven you'll burn yourself. Both of those things
happen because of how fast heat is moving.
 The heat from the hot pan moves into your hand
rapidly, and when touching an ice cube, you lose
your own body heat fast. Heat transfers from hot
places to cold places - or in other words, heat
spreads out. Extreme heat or cold can damage our
tissues, so it's a pretty important thing to
understand. It's also how we've been able to build
refrigerators and large insulated coolers to take to
the beach.
The Four Types of
Thermodynamic Processes

 isobaric
 isochoric
 isothermal
 adiabatic
Isobaric Process
An isobaric process is one where the pressure of the system (often a
gas) stays constant. 'Iso' means the same, and 'baric' means pressure.
Pressure is related to the amount of force that the molecules apply to
the walls of the container. Imagine that you have a gas inside a
movable piston and you heat that gas up. By heating the gas up you
make the molecules move faster, which would normally increase the
pressure. But at the same time the piston expands, increasing the
volume and giving the molecules more room to move. Since the walls
of the container are now bigger, the pressure can stay the same even
though the molecules are moving faster. That makes it an isobaric
process.
Isochoric Process
An isochoric process is one where the volume of the
system stays constant. Again, 'iso' means the same
and 'choric' means volume. Volume is the amount of
space the material takes up. So this would be like heating a
gas in a solid, non-expandable container. The molecules
would move faster and the pressure would increase, but
the size of the container stays the same.
Isothermal Process
An isothermal process is one where the
temperature of the system stays
constant. Thermal relates to heat, which is
in turn related to temperature. Temperature
is the average heat (movement) energy of
the molecules in a substance.
 Adiabatic
 no heat exchange TK the environment
 adiabatic has a complex greek origin that means "not+through+go":
α + Δια + βατός [a + dia + vatos]
 examples: "fast" processes, forcing air out through pursed lips,
bicycle tire pump
PV diagram is a "steep hyperbola