Enthalpy
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Enthalpy () [1][2] is defined as:
where is the internal energy, is the pressure, is the volume. is a conjugate pair. The differential of this function is
From the Second law of thermodynamics one obtains
thus we arrive at
For we have the following total differential
References[edit]
- ↑ J. P. Dalton "Researches on the Joule-Kelvin effect, especially at low temperatures. I. Calculations for hydrogen", KNAW Proceedings 11 pp. 863-873 (1909)
- ↑ Irmgard K. Howard "H Is for Enthalpy, Thanks to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Alfred W. Porter", Journal of Chemical Education 79 pp. 697-698 (2002)