Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-physics-b-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/paper-2/section-c/c10/adiabatic-temperature-and-energy-changes/solution

For the specified increment,
Using the adiabat, or its first-order Taylor expansion,
This is a very small cooling, about . There is no heat exchange, and the film is stretched against positive surface tension, so the internal energy increases, with
The cooling does not contradict this increase. In the linear model, , so
Creation of surface raises the internal energy more than the cooling lowers its temperature-dependent part. The change in surface tension during this tiny temperature fall changes the work only at a negligible higher order.

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