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Avatrin
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Hi
I am currently using a book called "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Daniel Schroeder, and there is a part of the book I am struggling with. So, I am looking for some other book that can help me learn the same stuff (to get a different perspective on the same material). For people familiar with the book, I am struggling with chapter five. For those who are not:
It is a chapter on free energy and chemical thermodynamics. The part I am struggling with is the chemical thermodynamics. For instance, the parts he uses one equation in particular are odd to me (for ideal gasses):
[tex] μ(T,P) = μ^0(T)+ kTln(\frac{P}{P^0})[/tex]
He deduces this by using Gibbs free energy. I get the deduction, but I do not understand how to use it.
So, when he asks me to use this in exercises to understand what happens when, for instance, an inert gas is added to a system in which a reactive gas is in equilibrium with its liquid phase, I do not know what to do.
He uses the equation above to deduce Raoult's law.
I do not understand osmotic pressure, phase transitions of mixtures and Van't Hoff's formula.
I am currently using a book called "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Daniel Schroeder, and there is a part of the book I am struggling with. So, I am looking for some other book that can help me learn the same stuff (to get a different perspective on the same material). For people familiar with the book, I am struggling with chapter five. For those who are not:
It is a chapter on free energy and chemical thermodynamics. The part I am struggling with is the chemical thermodynamics. For instance, the parts he uses one equation in particular are odd to me (for ideal gasses):
[tex] μ(T,P) = μ^0(T)+ kTln(\frac{P}{P^0})[/tex]
He deduces this by using Gibbs free energy. I get the deduction, but I do not understand how to use it.
So, when he asks me to use this in exercises to understand what happens when, for instance, an inert gas is added to a system in which a reactive gas is in equilibrium with its liquid phase, I do not know what to do.
He uses the equation above to deduce Raoult's law.
I do not understand osmotic pressure, phase transitions of mixtures and Van't Hoff's formula.