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That is why it is preferable to use the word “irreversible”, which is derived from Latin, rather than the literal translation “impossible to turn around”.
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For example, all the motions treated in Sect. 5.11 are irreversible. In such motions, temperature differences occur due to internal and external friction.
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The name was coined by R. Clausius in 1865 from the ancient Greek for “turning towards”, referring to what he had previously called the “transformation contents”.
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Lüders, K., Pohl, R.O. (2017). The State Function Entropy, S . In: Lüders, K., Pohl, R. (eds) Pohl's Introduction to Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40046-4_18
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