The idea of a quasistatic process is analyzed. The problem of the applicability of the axiom of adiabatic inaccessibility
and other propositions of the second law of thermodynamics to quasistatic processes is discussed.
Moscow State Extra-Mural Institute of the Food Industry. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No.
6, pp. 56–60, June, 1997.