For an adiabatic invariant, as the time taken to vary a system between two end points increases toward infinity, the variation of that invariant between the two end points approaches zero.
Notes on verification
Standard physics definition corroborated by encyclopedic and peer-reviewed sources; well-established result in classical mechanics/thermodynamics. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Adiabatic invariant (wikipedia)
- https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Adiabatic_invariant (corroboration)
- https://handwiki.org/wiki/Physics:Adiabatic_invariant (corroboration)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237265020_LETTER_TO_THE_EDITOR_Exact_analysis_of_adiabatic_invariants_in_the_time-dependent_harmonic_oscillator (corroboration)