You're going to work out what firm's demands are going to look like for each possible price they could set.

你们要解出,公司针对每一个其可能设定的价格,它的需求是什么

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get back to the initial point is going to require some input from outside, like heat or extra work or extra heat or something because you've done an irreversible process.

如果要逆转它,回到初始点，就需要外界的投入，比如额外的功，额外的热量等等,因为你进行了一个不可逆过程。

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Suppose someone proposed that up in heaven and someone else might say, well that's not going to work so well, that's like a kibbutz--like one of the kibbutzim.

假设天堂里有人提议要求绝对均等,然后就有其他人会说，这提议不太可能行得通，比如集体农场的人就可能这么说。

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We're going to find other properties that do care about the history of the system like work, that you put in the system, or heat that you put in the system, or some other variables But you can't use those to define the equilibrium state.

我们还会发现其他一些,与系统的历史有关的性质,比如你对系统做的功，或者你向系统传递的热量，或其他的变量,但你不能用它们,来定义平衡态。

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