What is a quasistatic process ? - Vidyadip

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What is a quasistatic process ?

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A quasistatic process is an idealised process which occurs infinitely slowly such that at all times the system is infinitesimally close to a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. Although the conditions for such a process can never be rigorously satisfied in practice, any real process which does not involve large accelerations or large temperature gradients is a reasonable approximation to a quasistatic process.

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