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The quasistatic pressure-volume work done on the body is . If its volume remains constant throughout the process, every vanishes, so the work is zero. Equal initial and final volumes alone would not suffice: an expansion and compression cycle can have nonzero work. Other work modes are excluded by this simple elastic-volume model.

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