https://gdpark.blog/tags/phase-transitions/Recent content in Phase Transitions on gdpark.blogHugoenTue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-60-trouton-s-rule/Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-60-trouton-s-rule/A casual dive into Trouton’s Rule, unpacking why phase transitions happen and how latent heat ties into entropy — because stability is literally everything.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-64-kelvin-s-formula-and-why-water-boils/Sat, 09 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-64-kelvin-s-formula-and-why-water-boils/We dig into why water boils by layering surface tension on top of phase-transition theory, then crank through the math to land on Kelvin’s formula.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-67-symmetry-breaking/Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-67-symmetry-breaking/Turns out not all phase transitions are the same — Ehrenfest classified them by order, and second-order ones like superconductivity behave totally differently!