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The potential for a thermodynamic process to be reversed in time. Alternatively, a quantification of how far an irreversible process is from being reversible, which relies on a comparison to a corresponding theoretical reversible process.

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Why pressure increases in a piston-cylinder device in isothermal reversible expansion?

A piston–cylinder device contains 1.2 kg of saturated water vapor at 200∘C. Heat is now transferred to steam, and steam expands reversibly and isothermally to a final pressure of 800 kPa. Determine th …
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Isothermal heat transfer processes are always reversible?

in my textbook, it is mentioned ; " isothermal heat transfer processes are internally reversible " what is the reason behind that?
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Carnot cycle total reversibility

I read the discussion of the same problem in another problem posted here Carnot Total Reversibility, but still I can't get the reason why Carnot cycle is stated as "Totally Reversible", it consists of …
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