Helmholtz energy function
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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Definition of A (for arbeit):
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where U is the internal energy, T is the temperature and S is the entropy. (TS) is a conjugate pair. The differential of this function is
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From the second law of thermodynamics one obtains
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thus one arrives at
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For A(T,V) one has the following total differential
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The following equation provides a link between classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics:
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where is the Boltzmann constant, T is the temperature, and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Q_{NVT}} is the canonical ensemble partition function.
