2.43 | Spring 2024 | Graduate

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture 6: Free Energies, Available Energies, and Stability Conditions

Legendre transforms and characteristic functions: enthalpy; Helmholtz, Gibbs, and Euler free energies; Massieu and Planck free entropies. The Maxwell relations. Available energies with respect to different reservoir kinds. The LeChatelier-Braun principle (part I).

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