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Carnot cycle

A cycle consisting of four reversible operations on a gas: (a) isothermal expansion from volume Va to Vb; adiabatic expansion from volume Vb to Vc; isothermal compression from volume Vc to Vd; adiabatic compression from volume Vd to Va.

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