Enthalpy

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Definition of the enthalpy, H

where is the internal energy, is the pressure, is the volume and (-pV) is a conjugate pair. The differential of this function is

From the Second law of thermodynamics one obtains

thus we arrive at

For H(S,p) we have the following total differential