2.43 | Spring 2024 | Graduate

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture 4: Temperature, Pressure, Chemical Potentials; the Clausius Statement of the Second Law

Necessary conditions for mutual equilibrium: temperature equality, pressure equality, chemical potential equality, Young-Laplace relation between pressures, surface tension and curvature. Proof of the Clausius statement of the second law. The Clausius inequality.

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