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What is the difference between reversible and irreversible process? Please can you explain it with an example??

What is the difference between reversible and irreversible process? Please can you explain it with an example??

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Umakant biswal
5349 Points
7 years ago
In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process whose direction can be "reversed" by inducing infinitesimal changes to some property of the system via its surroundings, while not increasing entropy. Throughout the entirereversible process, the system is in thermodynamic equilibrium with its surroundings..
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irreversible process increases the entropy of the universe. However, because entropy is a state function, the change in entropy of the system is the same whether theprocess is reversible or irreversible. The second law of thermodynamics can be used to determine whether aprocess is reversible or not. 
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