Podcast
Questions and Answers
What is a requirement for a process to be reversible?
What is a requirement for a process to be reversible?
- The system must be in a state of flux
- The system must be at rest (correct)
- The system must be in equilibrium
- The system must be in motion
What is a reversible process?
What is a reversible process?
- A process that can be reversed by an infinitesimally small change in a property of the system without a transfer of energy (correct)
- A process that can be reversed by a large change in a property of the system
- A process that can be reversed by an infinitesimally small change in a property of the system with a transfer of energy
- A process that can be reversed by a large change in a property of the system without a transfer of energy
When can a process be approximately reversible?
When can a process be approximately reversible?
- If the system cannot respond to a change in its state
- If the system can respond to a change in its state at the same speed as the change is occurring
- If the system can respond to a change in its state slower than the change is occurring
- If the system can respond to a change in its state faster than the change is occurring (correct)
Why are perfectly reversible processes impossible?
Why are perfectly reversible processes impossible?
What is the relation between reversibility and the second law of thermodynamics?
What is the relation between reversibility and the second law of thermodynamics?
What is a reversible process?
What is a reversible process?
Why is a perfectly reversible process impossible?
Why is a perfectly reversible process impossible?
What is the condition for a system to undergo a reversible process?
What is the condition for a system to undergo a reversible process?
When can a process be approximately reversible?
When can a process be approximately reversible?
Why are the assumptions of an ideal gas beneficial?
Why are the assumptions of an ideal gas beneficial?
What is the characteristic of a system that allows a process to be approximately reversible?
What is the characteristic of a system that allows a process to be approximately reversible?
Why does a reversible process take an infinite amount of time?
Why does a reversible process take an infinite amount of time?
What is the condition that makes a process perfectly reversible impossible?
What is the condition that makes a process perfectly reversible impossible?
What is the similarity between the assumptions of an ideal gas and thermodynamic reversibility?
What is the similarity between the assumptions of an ideal gas and thermodynamic reversibility?
Why is the discussion of thermodynamic reversibility of similar merit to the derivation of the kinetic theory of gases?
Why is the discussion of thermodynamic reversibility of similar merit to the derivation of the kinetic theory of gases?
