A textbook example involving recompression of a freely-expanded ideal gas which leads to a violation of the second law of thermodynamics is examined. While the example is fundamentally correct, it is somewhat incomplete in its consideration of restoring all of the elements of the system to their initial conditions. The situation is examined in more detail in this paper.
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