Reply to Comment on ‘An ideal gas and the increasing (total) entropy principle: what is allowed in the PV plane and what is not’

Abstract

Anacleto denies that macroscopic thermodynamics is necessarily free of dissipative effects. This allows him to introduce friction into the quasistatic description of classical thermodynamics. Here, we show that such an approach is a contradiction; there is no quasistatic process P=P(V) that describes work done against friction. As a consequence, friction is not included in classical thermodynamics and his conclusions are incorrect.