Visual Intuition of Isobaric (Constant Pressure) Process on P-V Diagram

[@yugalsharma2773]

Nice Explanation

[@subramaniann8465]

Hello sir I have I small doubt during expansion and compression some amount of pressure is exerted on the piston .so there will be change in pressure. Thank you

[@Elucyda]

If the piston moves sufficiently slowly, we can make the approximation that the pressure is constant.

[@yugalsharma2773]

@@Elucyda does this slow movement mean, quasi-equilibrium process?

[@yugalsharma2773]

@@Elucyda Are we considering the piston to be massless here? will there still be any work happening in the expansion of gas if we consider a massless piston?

[@wilurbean]

I think you did a really good job on the piston explanation of the pv diagram. But the entire piston explanation is not intuitive it doesn't explain why would a piston behave like that there's no connection to reality that's intuitive. And then it seems like right after we're talking about an open system the explanations tend to jump towards a close system and then to statistical mechanics they're just so all over the place that it's really difficult to see the connections between them. It's not a criticism of you it's the entire setup that I don't really like. I'm having a really hard time finding any other explanation besides the piston.