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Urmi Roy
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Hi!
I just need some basic things cleared and I would really appreciate if someone helped me out.
Here are a few questions that put forward my doubts:
1. Thermodynamic equilibrium requires mechanical equilibrium--please explain.
2.How many state variables (Voume,pressure,temperature etc.) are needed to specify a thermodynamic system?
3. In order for Boyle's law to be applicable to a process,does the process need to be quasi static and (or) isothermal?(Referring to this,the main thing is--is an isothermal process always quasi static?)
4.What kind of factors does continuum volume (the minimum volume needed to obtain a continuum in the system) depend upon?
5. why is density a thermodynamic quantity?(It says so in my book).
6. What is the significance of classifying systems into 'open','closed' and 'isolated' systems?(I mean in real life,do we consider them while performing adiabatic/isothermal/isochoric processes?)
7. Lastly,what is the difference between the Helmoltz equation and gibb's equation(just basic idea required).
Thanks.
(Btw,there are a lot of questions,but I guess they're short ones!)
I just need some basic things cleared and I would really appreciate if someone helped me out.
Here are a few questions that put forward my doubts:
1. Thermodynamic equilibrium requires mechanical equilibrium--please explain.
2.How many state variables (Voume,pressure,temperature etc.) are needed to specify a thermodynamic system?
3. In order for Boyle's law to be applicable to a process,does the process need to be quasi static and (or) isothermal?(Referring to this,the main thing is--is an isothermal process always quasi static?)
4.What kind of factors does continuum volume (the minimum volume needed to obtain a continuum in the system) depend upon?
5. why is density a thermodynamic quantity?(It says so in my book).
6. What is the significance of classifying systems into 'open','closed' and 'isolated' systems?(I mean in real life,do we consider them while performing adiabatic/isothermal/isochoric processes?)
7. Lastly,what is the difference between the Helmoltz equation and gibb's equation(just basic idea required).
Thanks.
(Btw,there are a lot of questions,but I guess they're short ones!)
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