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(a) Thermal equilibrium: When a hot cup of coffee is kept in the room, heat flows from coffee to the surrounding air. Afler sometime the coffee reaches the same temperature as the surrounding air and there will be no heat flow from coffee to air or air to coffee, It implies that the coffee and surrounding air are in thermal equilibrium with each other Two systems are said to be in thermal equilibrium with each other if they are at the same temperature, which will not change with time.
(b) Mechanical equilibrium: Consider a gas container with piston. When some mass is placed on the piston, it will move downward due to downward gravitational force and after certain humps and jumps the piston will come to rest at a new position. When the downward gravitational force given by the piston is balanced by the upward force exerted by the gas, the system is said to be in mechanical equilibrium. A system is said to be in mechanical equilibrium if no unbalanced force acts on the thermo dynamic system or on the surrounding by thermodynamic system.
(c) Chemical equilibrium: If there is no net chemical reaction between two thermodynamic systems in contact with each other then it is said to be in chemical equilibrium.
(d) Thermodynamic equilibrium: If two systems are set to be in thermodynamic equilibrium, then the systems are at thermal, mechanical and chemical equilibrium with each other. In a state of thermodynamic equilibrium the macroscopic variables such as pressure, volume and temperature will have fixed values and do not change with time.
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