Chemical potential
Classical thermodynamics
Definition:
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where is the Gibbs energy function, leading to
where is the Helmholtz energy function, is the Boltzmann constant, is the pressure, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T} is the temperature and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V} is the volume.
Statistical mechanics
The chemical potential is the derivative of the Helmholtz energy function with respect to the number of particles
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mu= \left. \frac{\partial A}{\partial N}\right\vert_{T,V}=\frac{\partial (-k_B T \ln Z_N)}{\partial N} = -\frac{3}{2} k_BT \ln \left(\frac{2\pi m k_BT}{h^2}\right) + \frac{\partial \ln Q_N}{\partial N}}
where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Z_N} is the partition function for a fluid of identical particles
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and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Q_N} is the configurational integral
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Q_N = \frac{1}{N!} \int ... \int \exp (-U_N/k_B T) dr_1...dr_N}
Kirkwood charging formula
See Ref. 2
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where is the intermolecular pair potential and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\rm g}(r)} is the pair correlation function.
