If, on raising the piston, the temperature of the black body forming the bottom is kept constant by a corresponding addition of heat from the heat reservoir, the process takes place isothermally. Then, along with the temperature of the black body, the energy density , the radiation pressure , and the density of the entropy also remain constant; hence the total energy of radiation increases from to , the entropy from to and the heat supplied from the heat reservoir is obtained by integrating [eqn:(72)] (72) at constant , or, according to [eqn:(81)] (81) and [eqn:(75)] (75),
Thus it is seen that the heat furnished from the outside exceeds the increase in energy of radiation by . This excess in the added heat is necessary to do the external work accompanying the increase in the volume of radiation.