In some cases, it is important to distinguish between reversible and quasistatic processes.
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Reversible processes are always quasistatic processes, but the converse is not always true.
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Thermodynamic cycles are often represented mathematically as quasistatic processes in the modeling of the workings of an actual device.
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A central notion for this connection is that of quasistatic processes, namely idealized, " infinitely slow " processes.
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The quantum mechanical definition is closer to the thermodynamical concept of a quasistatic process, and has no direct relation with heat exchange.
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In the limit ? " V " to zero, this becomes an ideal quasistatic process, albeit an irreversible one.
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A "'quasistatic process "'is an idealized or fictive model of a thermodynamic " process " considered in theoretical studies.
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When a system expands in a fictive quasistatic process, the work done by the system on the environment is the product,, of pressure,, and volume change,, whereas the work done " on " the system is.