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Thermopia: class notes on thermodynamics

This blog serves as a central repository for information related to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics classes I teach at the University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Chemical Engineering. Comments are limited to undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering students at UCSB.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

PS3, problem 3

For part (b) in this problem, express your density of states and entropy functions in terms of x rather than L. This will simplify your life. Then, when you want to take an L-derivative of the entropy, you can use the chain rule.
-MSS
Posted by M. Scott Shell at 5:04 PM

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