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Thermodynamics
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Give the points of difference between reversible process and irreversible process.

Answer

Reversible process

Irreversible process

1. Such processes take place infinitesimally slowly and their direction at any point can be reversed.

1. The process cannot be reversed.

2. It is a slow process.

2. It is a fast process.

3. This process is in equilibrium at all stages of operation.

3. There is no equilibrium.

4. This is an ideal and imaginary process.

4. It is a real process.

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