Helmholtz energy function

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Definition:

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(TS) is a conjugate pair. The differential of this function is

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but from the Second law of thermodynamics one obtains

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thus one arrives at

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leading finally to

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For A(T,V) one has the following total differential

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Good for $NVT$