Re: Heat through an adiabatic wall?

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

My impression was that Tim's initial question referred to a course
in which irreversible processes are ignored. That is how I was
introduced to thermodynamics. Is it fair to say that in such a
course the described dilemma can be viewed as a paradox?

Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> Without reviving the old thread, let me just summarize some pertinent
> implications of the traditional wisdom:
>
> 1) Entropy is a state function, ie.;  the end states of a system
> completely determine its entropy change (delta S).
>
> 2) The entropy change of a system is calculable as the integral of dS =
> dQ/T over a REVERSIBLE path between the specified end states (or, if
> known, by simply evaluating the change in the Entropy state function - eg:
> S(T,V,N) for some gas - stated in terms of known state properties.).
> .......