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  1. Changes in the physical condition of a gas in
  2. a reversible heat engine, necessarily in the
  3. following order: (1) isothermal expansion
  4. (without change of temperature), (2)
  5. adiabatic expansion (without change of heat
  6. content), (3) isothermal compression, and (4)
  7. adiabatic compression. The principles derived
  8. from a study of this cycle are important in
  9. the fundamentals of heat and thermodynamics.
  10.