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The Principles of Thermodynamics
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The Principles of Thermodynamics

by N.D. Hari Dass
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 56m
English
CRC Press
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The Clapeyron Equation
In this chapter we shall derive one of the most important equations in thermody-
namics, the so called Clapeyron Equation, named after Paul Emile Clapeyron (1799-
1864), one of the founders of thermodynamics. The Clapeyron equation is magical
in its ability to explain a myriad of facts concerning phase equilibria. Nevertheless,
its derivation, at least in its most commonly used form, is rather straightforward. We
shall present a few alternative ways of obtaining it. We shall also give a generaliza-
tion of it due to the Austrian and Dutch physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933), which
enables it to be applied to the so called
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