You'll be tempted to start swapping around derivatives to get Maxwell relations, but remember not all derivatives can be transformed using this approach. For example,
(dS/dT)_(V,N) cannot be transformed using a Maxwell relation. It is not equal to (dP/dV)_(T,N), if that is what you were thinking.
Recall:
(dS/dT) = (d2A/dT2)
(dP/dV) = (d2A/dV2)
Therefore, these are not the same second derivative of a free energy.
If it had instead been (dS/dV)_(T,N) then we could have said that equals (dP/dT)_(V,N).
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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