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Drawing a blank studying last minute for an exam:

when does a piston cylinder not follow the 2nd law of thermodynamics!!!!

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dQ/T is negative for part of the cycle and positive for another. Of course if you include the surroundings overall entropy shows its usual tendency to increase :)

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