Question

Make the assumptions that you consider necessary, explain each of them in detail.

The so-called response functions, which are commonly used to describe the thermodynamic behavior of a simple and homogeneous fluid, are its specific heats, volumetric dilation and isothermal compressibility.

a) What is the relationship between them?

b) What is the relationship between adiabatic compressibility and the previous functions?

c) If instead of a simple and homogeneous fluid, the system of interest is a paramagnetic solid. What will be the response functions? How will the relationships obtained in a) and b) be modified?

Answer 1