https://gdpark.blog/tags/state-functions/Recent content in State Functions on gdpark.blogHugoenSat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-16-the-first-law-of-thermodynamics-state-functions-and-exact-vs/Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-16-the-first-law-of-thermodynamics-state-functions-and-exact-vs/We dig into what heat actually IS, why state functions don’t care about the path you took, and the difference between exact and inexact differentials — hehe.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-28-maxwell-relations/Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-28-maxwell-relations/We dig into state functions and path-independence, invoke Stokes’ theorem to prove a key condition, and then finally get to deriving the Maxwell Relations!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!