Entropy generated by cooling a finite body in a reservoir
ID: entropy-generated-by-cooling-a-finite-body-in-a-reservoir
For a body of constant heat capacity cooling from to a thermal reservoir at , the body's entropy change is , while the reservoir gains . Their sum is nonnegative because for . The logarithmic body contribution is computed along a hypothetical reversible path; the actual finite-temperature-difference heat transfer is irreversible.
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