This document discusses thermodynamic properties and relations. Some key points:
- Thermodynamic properties that cannot be directly measured must be related to measurable properties.
- Properties are continuous point functions that have exact differentials and can be written as functions of two independent variables like z(x,y).
- The Maxwell relations relate the partial derivatives of properties like pressure, specific volume, temperature and entropy.
- The Clapeyron equation relates the enthalpy change of phase change to the slope of the saturation curve on a pressure-temperature diagram.
- Specific heats, internal energy, enthalpy and entropy changes can be expressed in terms of pressure, specific volume, temperature and specific he