2.43 | Spring 2024 | Graduate

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture 9: Minimum Work of Partitioning Small Systems; The Gibbs Phase Rule; The Van der Waals Model

Minimum work of partitioning small systems. Review of equilibrium properties of pure substances. The Gibbs phase rule. The Clausius-Clapeyron relation. Representation on p-T, u-v-s, h-s, p-v diagrams. The van der Waals model of metastable liquid and vapor states.

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