Adiabatic gas-spring piston period
ID: adiabatic-gas-spring-piston-period
A frictionless piston of area and mass supported by gas has . Small displacement changes its volume by . The local isentropic compressibility gives , so Newton's second law becomes . The period follows. Gas inertia and heat leakage are neglected, and internal equilibration must be faster than the oscillation.
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