P-V Diagrams & Cyclic Processes
A thermodynamic cycle xyzx is shown on a V-T diagram.

The P-V diagram that best describes this cycle is:
(Diagrams are schematic and not to scale)
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Answer: (a)
- : straight line through the origin on -, so : isobaric expansion.
- : constant, falls: isochoric, so decreases.
- : constant, falls: isothermal compression, rises along a hyperbola.
- On -: horizontal line , vertical drop , isothermal curve . So the answer is (a).