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Bernard Cleyet wrote:
A PID controller with a heater or cooler of a single reservoir
won't do?
John Mallinckrodt wrote:
(e.g., an isobaric or isochoric process), you will need a large
number (technically, an infinite number) of reservoirs at
different temperatures.
That could work to perform a reasonable approximation of a quasi-
static process on the gas, but it wouldn't constitute even an attempt
to perform a reversible process because heaters and coolers generate
entropy by design.
John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona
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