Thermodynamic identities
Posted by peeterjoot on March 7, 2013
Impressed with the clarity of Baez’s entropic force discussion on differential forms [1], let’s use that methodology to find all the possible identities that we can get from the thermodynamic identity (for now assuming is fixed, ignoring the chemical potential.)
This isn’t actually that much work to do, since a bit of editor regular expression magic can do most of the work.
Our starting point is the thermodynamic identity
or
It’s quite likely that many of the identities that can be obtained will be useful, but this should at least provide a handy reference of possible conversions.
Differentials in
This first case illustrates the method.
Taking wedge products with and
respectively, we form two two forms
Since these must both be zero we find
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References
[1] John Baez. Entropic forces, 2012. URL http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/entropic-forces/. [Online; accessed 07-March-2013].
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