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Reversible compression of a gas - faulty reasoning?
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[QUOTE="kibestar, post: 6054467, member: 508318"] I believe it really comes to the non-zero temperature/pressure pair, as you pointed out. At first I had envisioned absolute zero temperature and pressure for this hypothetical process. However at that stage, the definition of entropy ceases to be mathematically sound. Lowering the temperature of the gas to absolute zero would call for an infinite amount of entropy being removed from the system. Likewise, raising its temperature from absolute zero would call for an infinite amount of entropy being transferred into the system. So I hypothesized infinitesimal temperature and pressure as a way of circumventing this "limitation". I guess I wasn't as rigorous as I thought I was being. [/QUOTE]
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