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(New page: An '''extensive''' property is one that cannot be defined for a specific spatial point, and whose value varies with the size of the system. ==Examples of extensive variables== *Volume *M...)
 
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*[[Entropy]]
*[[Internal energy]]
*[[Heat capacity]]
Extensive properties can be recast as [[intensive properties]]
Extensive properties can be recast as [[intensive properties]]
by re-normalising the property with respect to the system size
by re-normalising the property with respect to the system size
to obtain a ''density''.
to obtain a ''density''.
[[Category: Classical thermodynamics]]
[[Category: Classical thermodynamics]]

Latest revision as of 13:56, 21 June 2007

An extensive property is one that cannot be defined for a specific spatial point, and whose value varies with the size of the system.

Examples of extensive variables[edit]

Extensive properties can be recast as intensive properties by re-normalising the property with respect to the system size to obtain a density.