The total internal energy and particle number are conserved. The outer container is rigid and isolated, so there is no external work or heat transfer. Its total volume stays , while the volume accessible to the gas increases from to . Neither the gas temperature nor its entropy is generally conserved: this is an irreversible free expansion, with increasing entropy.

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