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in defining the entropy of mixtures.

Additionally, the system must be in (quasistatic) equilibrium with the surroundings at all time, and there must be no dissipative effects, such as friction, for a process to be considered reversible.

Reversible processes are useful in thermodynamics because they are so idealized that the equations for heat and expansion/compression work are simple. This enables the analysis of model processes,

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