Gibbs energy function

From SklogWiki
Revision as of 16:30, 23 February 2007 by Carl McBride (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Definition:

G=A+pV
G=U−TS+pV

Taking the total derivative

dG=dU−TdS−SdT+pdV+Vdp

From the Second law of thermodynamics one obtains

dG=TdS−pdV−TdS−SdT+pdV+Vdp

thus one arrives at

dG=−SdT+Vdp

For G(T,p) we have the following total differential

dG=(∂G∂T)pdT+(∂G∂p)Tdp