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Scot Chaston

Faculty of Applied Science, University of Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (2), p 216

DOI: 10.1021/ed076p216

Publication Date (Web): February 1, 1999

Section:

History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

This article discusses examples of three thermodynamic diagrams that have been developed for this purpose. They are the thermodynamic energy account (TEA), the total entropy scale, and the thermodynamic scale diagrams. These diagrams help in the teaching and learning of thermodynamics by bringing the imagination into the process of developing a better understanding of abstract thermodynamic functions, and by allowing the reader to keep track of specialist thermodynamic discourses in the literature.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Physical Chemistry

Keywords (Subject):

Thermodynamics

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Mnemonic Device for Relating the Eight Thermodynamic State Variables: The Energy Pie
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- Mnemonic Device for Relating the Eight Thermodynamic State Variables: The Energy Pie
  Jeffrey E. Fieberg and Charles A. Girard
  Journal of Chemical Education2011 88 (11), 1544-1546
  A mnemonic device, the energy pie, is presented that provides relationships between thermodynamic potentials (U, H, G, and A) and other sets of variables that carry energy units, TS and PV. Methods are also presented in which the differential expressions ...
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