What is an indicator diagram? What is its significance? - Vidyadip

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What is an indicator diagram? What is its significance?

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An indicator diagram is a P-V graph showing the variation of pressure and volume during a thermodynamical process.

It gives us:

The nature of process.
The work done during the process.

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