https://gdpark.blog/tags/internal-energy/Recent content in Internal Energy on gdpark.blogHugoenMon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-17-chapter-11-practice-problems/Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-17-chapter-11-practice-problems/Working through Chapter 11 thermo problems — isothermal expansion of a monatomic ideal gas and showing those Cv/Cp identities with γ, step by step.https://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-34-relationship-between-the-partition-function-and-state-functi/Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-34-relationship-between-the-partition-function-and-state-functi/We derive thermodynamic state functions like U, F, and S straight from the partition function Z — turns out one sneaky differential trick does all the heavy lifting!https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-59-joule-kelvin-expansion-and-the-inversion-curve/Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-59-joule-kelvin-expansion-and-the-inversion-curve/A casual walkthrough of Joule-Kelvin (Joule-Thomson) expansion and the throttling process — the much simpler way to cool a gas that won’t give you cancer hehe.