https://gdpark.blog/tags/gibbs-free-energy/Recent content in Gibbs Free Energy on gdpark.blogHugoenSun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-27-enthalpy-helmholtz-free-energy-and-gibbs-free-energy/Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-27-enthalpy-helmholtz-free-energy-and-gibbs-free-energy/Starting from dU = TdS - pdV, we add clever terms to both sides to cook up enthalpy, Helmholtz, and Gibbs — basically just a change of variables to make life easier.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-44-chemical-potential-as-gibbs-free-energy-per-particle/Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-44-chemical-potential-as-gibbs-free-energy-per-particle/We dig into what happens to Gibbs free energy and entropy once we let particles flow in and out, and see why chemical potential turns out to be G per particle!https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-47-le-chatelier-s-principle/Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-47-le-chatelier-s-principle/A casual deep-dive into Le Chatelier’s Principle through the lens of Gibbs free energy, explaining why reactions reach dynamic equilibrium and how the system responds to disturbances.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-56-superheating-and-supercooling/Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-56-superheating-and-supercooling/We dig into what actually happens below T_c — using Gibbs free energy to figure out which state a system really lands in when the P-V curve gets all weird and dented.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-57-maxwell-s-construction/Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-57-maxwell-s-construction/A quick look at Maxwell’s construction — using ∫Vdp = 0 to pin down exactly where phase coexistence happens on the van der Waals curve.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-61-the-clausius-clapeyron-equation/Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-61-the-clausius-clapeyron-equation/We revisit phase transitions using Gibbs free energy and chemical potential to derive the phase coexistence condition and work toward the Clausius-Clapeyron equation hehehe.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-65-gibbs-free-energy-of-a-water-droplet-and-bubble-nucleation/Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-65-gibbs-free-energy-of-a-water-droplet-and-bubble-nucleation/Walk through calculating the Gibbs free energy of a liquid droplet in vapor equilibrium, factoring in surface tension to set up the physics behind bubble nucleation.