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  • $\begingroup$ I appreciate that δS=δQ/T applies only to reversible processes, and it is to be changed to an inequality, but then how can one conceptually justify that the thermal bath acts reversibly, on an irreversible system? $\endgroup$
    – Smerdjakov
    Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 19:58