bicameral is the term for a legislature with two bodies.
bicameral is the term for a legislature with two bodies.
what is the term for a legislature with two bodies?
bicameral
the florida constitution mandates a bicameral state legislature, consisting of a florida senate of 40 members and a florida house of representatives of 120 members. the two bodies meet in the florida state capitol. the florida house of representative members serve for two-year terms, while florida senate members serve staggered four-year terms, with 20 senators up for election every two years. members of both houses are term limited to serve a maximum of eight years. there are also state auditors led by the florida auditor general who is appointed by the joint legislative auditing committee, the utility-regulating florida public service commission (fpsc), and the florida office of program policy analysis and government accountability (oppaga).
government of florida
any reversible process is a quasi-static one. however, quasi-static processes involving entropy production are not reversible. an example of a quasi-static process that is not reversible is a compression against a system with a piston subject to friction—although the system is always in thermal equilibrium, the friction ensures the generation of dissipative entropy, which directly goes against the definition of reversible. a notable example of a process that is not even quasi-static is the slow heat exchange between two bodies on two finitely different temperatures, where the heat exchange rate is controlled by an approximately adiabatic partition between the two bodies—in this case, no matter how slowly the process takes place, the states of the composite system consisting of the two bodies is far from equilibrium, since thermal equilibrium for this composite system requires that the two bodies be at the same temperature.
quasistatic process