2010-10-15, 01:43 AM
If you had a pressure change, yet constant volume, you integrate with respect to pressure, not volume. The negative is only since the work is being done to the system from an external source. In the first law, it has to be there. If not, the world would ... I don't know, explode? Implode? Vdp is right after the minus sign. E=Q-Vdp.
