Exercise 13.

For a perfect gas, find the expressions in terms of its natural variables (i.e.
as a thermodynamic potential) for the following state functions:
 Internal energy
 Enthalpy
E th l
 Helmholtz potential
 Gibbs potential

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Exercise 14.

Obtain the variations of:

 Internal energy
 Enthalpy
 Entropy
 Gibbs potential

produced when 1kg of an incompressible substance is subject to a change

i pressure ffrom 1 bar
in b tot 100 bar
b att a constant
t t temperature
t t off 50ºC.
50ºC
At 50ºC, the dilatation coefficient of that substance is 4.6510-4 K-1, and its
1 01210-33 m3/kg.
specific volume is 1.01210 /kg

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Exercise 15.

The following expression describes the specific Gibbs potential of certain

gas:
g (T , p )  A  Bp  RT (ln p  T )

where A and B are constants. Obtain:

 The thermal equation of state
 The energy equation of state
 Expressions for the enthalpy and the Helmholtz potential as a function
of p
pressure and temperature
p
 Expressions for cp and cv (note that it is not strictly necessary to use
the generalized Mayer relation).
relation)

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