science, a process that is not reversible is called irreversible. This concept arises frequently in thermodynamics. All complex natural processes are irreversible...

Look up irreversible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Irreversible may refer to: Irreversible process, in thermodynamics, a process that is not reversible...

occur. While processes in isolated systems are never reversible, cyclical processes can be reversible or irreversible. Reversible processes are hypothetical...

\,{\text{(closed system; actually possible, irreversible process).}}} This is because a general process for this case (no mass exchange between the system...

{P_{\text{A}}}{P_{\text{B}}}}} . Once obtained, these formulas can be applied to an irreversible process, such as the free expansion of an ideal gas. Such an expansion is...

thermocouple or thermal-imaging camera. Throttling is a fundamentally irreversible process. The throttling due to the flow resistance in supply lines, heat...

dissipation is the result of an irreversible process that affects a thermodynamic system. In a dissipative process, energy (internal, bulk flow kinetic...

processes, as follows. Actual physical processes of transfer of energy as work are always at least to some degree irreversible. The irreversibility is...

writing are wrong or incompatible with our universe. For example, irreversible processes in thermodynamics suggest that Laplace's "demon" could not reconstruct...

energy transformation into two kinds: reversible processes and irreversible processes. An irreversible process is one in which energy is dissipated (spread)...

transformations in form of heat and work. Entropy predicts that certain processes are irreversible or impossible, despite not violating the conservation of energy...

consequence of the second law of thermodynamics is that certain processes are irreversible. The thermodynamic concept was referred to by Scottish scientist...

process to evaluate the efficiency of the process. Entropy is produced in irreversible processes. The importance of avoiding irreversible processes (hence...

Reversible computing Landauer, Rolf (1961), "Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process", IBM Journal of Research and Development, 5...

objection'), is the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics. This puts the time reversal symmetry...

previously gathered. Erasing information is a thermodynamically irreversible process that increases the entropy of a system. Although Bennett had reached...

The Joule expansion (a subset of free expansion) is an irreversible process in thermodynamics in which a volume of gas is kept in one side of a thermally...

microscopic events to macroscopic measurements and records them by a time-irreversible process (Bell, John (2004). Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics:...

whole box, so that the final state is a box full of gas. This is an irreversible process, since if the box is full at the beginning (experiment B), it does...

tissue architecture. However, the entire process, although necessary, can lead to a progressive irreversible fibrotic response if tissue injury is severe...

the classical nature of measurement results. An "irreversible" or effectively irreversible process imparts the classical behavior of "observation" or...

the second law of thermodynamics—a statement about fundamentally irreversible processes—from reversible microscopic mechanics. It is thought to prove the...

Onsager's reciprocal relations; it was titled On the Theory of Irreversible Processes. Upon receiving his degree, Callen spent a year at the MIT Laboratory...

are useful for determining conditions for equilibrium and spontaneous processes. The study of the behaviours of electrons, electric media, magnets, magnetic...

"Radiation and the violation of bilinearity in the irreversible thermodynamics of irreversible processes". Planetary and Space Science. 32 (8): 1035–1043...

with the investiture of king Sihanouk was the opening act for the irreversible process towards re-emancipation and modern Cambodian history. The Kingdom...

observer, or measurement, or collapse; instead, an "irreversible" or effectively irreversible process causes the decay of quantum coherence which imparts...

the material slowly expands, cracking, buckling and warping in an irreversible process that makes the object exceedingly brittle and prone to fracture,...

an irreversible process that shrinks organic material. He becomes part of the first group of human test subjects and is encouraged that the process reduces...

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia. It converts atmospheric nitrogen...