Adiabatic reversible compression: a molecular view
  The adiabatic compression (or expansion) of an ideal gas has been analysed. Using the kinetic theory of gases the usual relation between temperature and volume is obtained, while textbooks follow a thermodynamic approach. In this way we show once again the agreement between a macroscopic view (thermodynamics) and a microscopic one (kinetic theory). 
E. N. Miranda
physics.gen-ph