Equations of state
Equations of state are generally expressions that relate the macroscopic observables, or state variables, such as pressure, , volume, , and temperature, .
General
- Common bulk modulus point
 - Law of corresponding states
 - Linear isothermal regularity
 - Maxwell's equal area construction
 - Tait-Murnaghan relation
 - Zeno line
 
Virial equations of state
Semi-empirical equations of state
Naturally there is the ideal gas equation of state. However, one of the first steps towards a description of realistic substances was the famous van der Waals equation of state. Since then a plethora of semi-empirical equations have been developed, often in a similar vein to the van der Waals equation of state, each trying to better reproduce the foibles of the many gasses and/or liquids that are often of industrial interest.
- Amagat
 - Antoine
 - Baonza
 - BACK
 - Battelli
 - Beattie-Bridgeman
 - Benedict, Webb, and Rubin
 - Berthelot
 - Birch-Murnaghan
 - Boltzmann
 - Boynton and Bramley
 - Brillouin
 - Clausius
 - Cole
 - Dalton
 - DIBACK
 - Dieterici
 - Dupré
 - Elliott, Suresh, and Donohue
 - Fouché
 - Goebel
 - Hirn
 - Holzapfel
 - Jäger
 - Kam
 - Kumari-Dass
 - Lagrange
 - Leduc
 - Linear isothermal regularity
 - Lorenz
 - Mie
 - MOBACK
 - Mohsen-Nia, Modarress and Mansoori
 - Murnaghan
 - Natanson
 - NIK
 - Onnes
 - Peczalski
 - Peng and Robinson
 - Planck
 - Porter
 - QUABACK
 - Rankine
 - Recknagel
 - Redlich-Kwong
 - Reinganum
 - Rose-Vinet
 - Sarrau
 - Schiller
 - Schrieber
 - Smoluchowski
 - Starkweather
 - Stiffened
 - Tait
 - Thiesen
 - Tillotson
 - Tumlirz
 - Twu-Sim-Tassone
 - van der Waals
 - Walter
 - Wohl
 - Water equation of state
 
Other methods
Model systems
Equations of state for idealised models:
- Three-dimensional hard dumbbells
 - Hard convex bodies
 - Hard rods
 - Gaussian overlap model
 - Square shoulder model
 - Square well model
 - Triangular well model
 - Equations of state for hard spheres
 - Equations of state for crystals of hard spheres
 - Equations of state for hard sphere mixtures
 - Equations of state for hard disks
 - Hard ellipsoid equation of state
 - Lennard-Jones equation of state
 - Fused hard sphere chains
 - Tetrahedral hard sphere model
 
See also
Interesting reading
- James A. Beattie and Walter H. Stockmayer "Equations of state", Reports on Progress in Physics 7 pp. 195-229 (1940)
 - K. K. Shah and G. Thodos "A Comparison of Equations of State", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 57 pp. 30-37 (1965)
 - J. S. Rowlinson "The equation of state of dense systems", Reports on Progress in Physics 28 pp. 169-199 (1965)
 
Books
- "Equations of State for Fluids and Fluid Mixtures", Eds. J. V. Sengers, R. F. Kayser, C. J. Peters, and H. J. White Jr., Elsevier (2000) ISBN 0-444-50384-6