A sample of ideal gas expands freely into a vacuum from volume V to 2V while the…

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Problem

A sample of ideal gas expands freely into a vacuum from volume V to 2V while the container is thermally insulated. Explain, in one or two sentences, why this process cannot spontaneously reverse itself to the original volume.

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