A polytropic process is a thermodynamic process that is reversible and obeys the relation:
where p is the pressure, V is volume, n, the polytropic index, is any real number, and C is a constant. This equation can be used to accurately characterize processes of certain systems, notably the compression or expansion of a gas and in some cases liquids and solids.
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