Which is not a thermodynamical potential

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Sir,
Among the following which is not a thermodynamical potential:
Entropy,Internal energy, Gibbs free energy,Enthalpy
 
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Nobody's going to just give you the answer. What are your thoughts on it? Do you know what a thermodynamic potential is?
 
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Nobody's going to just give you the answer. What are your thoughts on it? Do you know what a thermodynamic potential is?

Sir,
Could you please explain the meaning of thermodynamic potential?
 
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In simple terms

the U representation

U=U\left(S,\{X_{i}\}_{i=\bar{1,n}}\right)

then a thermodynamic potential is a Legendre transformation of the internal energy wrt one or more intensive parameters associated to S and the external extensive parameters...

Daniel.
 
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