Lecture 5: Free Energy and Maxwell Relations
Sep 07, 2005
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Episode description
Helmholtz Free Energy is the right energy to use when temperature and volume are used as control variables. Free Energy and the Partition Function. Maxwell Relations -- you can derive them all. Legendre Transforms. Ideal Gas. Quantum Concentration.
Why some slow processes are still irreversible, as with toast and frogs.
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Why some slow processes are still irreversible, as with toast and frogs.
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