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Past exam of the physics B course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 1 Section C C10 b Solution by
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At fixed positive temperature, tends to as . This is a physically meaningful unbounded-volume limit for a fixed mole number: , so the number of accessible translational configurations grows without bound. For an ideal gas the entropy difference is at fixed temperature. No finite vessel reaches an infinite entropy, and at finite temperature is not a finite-volume one-mole state. The divergence is approached by dilution; it does not conflict with the third law, which concerns a different temperature limit.
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