+1 862 207 3288 The hypothetical problem of equilibrium in a closed composite system with an internal moveable adiabatic wall is a unique indeterminate problem. Physically, release of the piston would lead it to perpetual oscillation in the absence of viscous damping. With viscou imping the piston would eventually come to rest at such a position that the pressures on either side would be equal, but the temperatures in each subsystem would then depend on the relative viscosity in each subsystem. The solution of this problem depends on dynamical considerations. Show that the application of the entropy maximum formalism is correspondingly indeterminate with respect to the temperatures (but determinate with respect to the pressures).
