If I look at different points in my container during that path, I'm going to have to use a different value of pressure or different value of temperature That's not an equilibrium state, and that process turns out then to be an irreversible process.

如果我要研究在路径中容器里的,不同的点，我就得在容器里不同的点上使用,不同的压强值,或不同的温度值,实际上这不是个平衡态，这个过程是,不可逆过程。

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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