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Quasistatic conditions (was: Re: Relativity question)



--- David Bowman <dbowman@TIGER.GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:

Recall that both joules and bits
measure *extensive* quantities and temperature is an *intensive*
quantity that can be expressed as a partial deriviative of
extensive internal energy w.r.t. extensive entropy (under
quasistatic
conditions where no macrowork is done during the variation).


Weren't quasistatic conditions ones in which maximum work is
extracted from the system? Please give examples of quasistatic
changes.

Pentcho