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The week ahead

The week ahead

Welcome to the Last week of the course. During this final week, we focus our attention to applying property relations to various situations to demonstrate their usefulness.

Thermodynamic properties such as temperature, pressure, volume and entropy are related with each other. Some property changes depending on other property changes are kind of clear and can be easily obtained. However, some relations are not that intuitive. For example, the dependence of entropy on pressure is not that simple at a glance. The power of property relations is to convert those non-simple relations into more familiar ones with some mathematical manipulation. The versatility of property relations is demonstrated in various situations.

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