2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/167633We show that Peliti's Comment [arXiv:0808.2855] fails to appreciate basic physical principles and consequently misrepresents both our work as well as the classical work of Gibbs and Tolman.To appear in Physical Review LettersStatistical MechanicsReply to Comment on "Failure of the work-Hamiltonian connection for free-energy calculations" by Luca Pelititext