Editing Quasistatic process (section)

==Relation to reversible process==

While all [[reversible process (thermodynamics)|reversible processes]] are quasi-static, most authors do not require a general quasi-static process to maintain equilibrium between system and surroundings and avoid dissipation,<ref name="deVoe 2020"> H. DeVoe (2020) [https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/DeVoes_Thermodynamics_and_Chemistry/03%3A_The_First_Law/3.02%3A_Spontaneous_Reversible_and_Irreversible_Processes online].</ref> which are defining characteristics of a reversible process. For example, quasi-static compression of a system by a piston subject to [[friction]] is irreversible; although the system is always in internal thermal equilibrium, the friction ensures the generation of dissipative entropy, which goes against the definition of reversibility. Any engineer would remember to include friction when calculating the dissipative entropy generation. 

An example of a quasi-static process that is not idealizable as reversible is slow [[heat transfer]] between two bodies on two finitely different temperatures, where the heat transfer rate is controlled by a poorly conductive partition between the two bodies. In this case, no matter how slowly the process takes place, the state of the composite system consisting of the two bodies is far from equilibrium, since thermal equilibrium for this composite system requires that the two bodies be at the same temperature. Nevertheless, the entropy change for each body can be calculated using the Clausius equality for reversible heat transfer.