System of thermodynamic quantities in the McMillan-Mayer solution theory

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilém Kodýtek

The McMillan-Mayer (MM) free energy per unit volume of solution AMM, is employed as a generating function of the MM system of thermodynamic quantities for solutions in the state of osmotic equilibrium with pure solvent. This system can be defined by replacing the quantities G, T, P, and m in the definition of the Lewis-Randall (LR) system by AMM, T, P0, and c (P0 being the pure solvent pressure). Following this way the LR to MM conversion relations for the first derivatives of the free energy are obtained in a simple form. New relations are derived for its second derivatives.

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 2888-2892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilém Kodýtek

A special free energy function is defined for a solution in the osmotic equilibrium with pure solvent. The partition function of the solution is derived at the McMillan-Mayer level and it is related to this special function in the same manner as the common partition function of the system to its Helmholtz free energy.


Author(s):  
Mehrdokht Sasanpour ◽  
Chenor Ajilian ◽  
Siamak Sadat Gousheh

Abstract We compute the Casimir thermodynamic quantities for a massive fermion field between two parallel plates with the MIT boundary conditions, using three different general approaches and present explicit solutions for each. The Casimir thermodynamic quantities include the Casimir Helmholtz free energy, pressure, energy and entropy. The three general approaches that we use are based on the fundamental definition of Casimir thermodynamic quantities, the analytic continuation method represented by the zeta function method, and the zero temperature subtraction method. We include the renormalized versions of the latter two approaches as well, whereas the first approach does not require one. Within each general approach, we obtain the same results in a few different ways to ascertain the selected cancellations of infinities have been done correctly. We then do a comparative study of the three different general approaches and their results, and show that they are in principle not equivalent to each other and they yield in general different results. In particular, we show that the Casimir thermodynamic quantities calculated only by the first approach have all three properties of going to zero as the temperature, the mass of the field, or the distance between the plates increases.


Author(s):  
Robert H. Swendsen

Many of the calculations in thermodynamics concern the effects of small changes. To carry out such calculations, we often need to evaluate first and second partial derivatives of some thermodynamic quantities with respect to other thermodynamic quantities. Although there are many such partial second derivatives, they are related by thermodynamic identities. This chapter explains the most straightforward way of deriving the needed thermodynamic identities. After explaining the derivation of Maxwell relations and how to find the right one for any given problem, Jacobian methods are introduced, with an accolade to their simplicity and utility. Several examples of the derivation of thermodynamic identities are given, along with a systematic guide for solving general problems.


A system is studied which consists of a large number of molecules contained in a rectangular parallelepiped with rigid walls. Volume and surface area are taken as two principal coordinates, and pressure and surface tension are considered as isothermal derivatives of the free energy. It is shown that, for a one-phase system, the thermodynamic pressure so obtained depends on the values, at the centre of the container, of the number density and the pair-distribution function. Two types of surface tension are considered as derivatives of the free energy, that at the walls of the container and that at the surface between liquid and vapour. For the latter, the formula obtained agrees with that of Kirkwood & Buff (1949), who treated surface tension from the point of view of a stress, and it is shown how their treatment may be shortened considerably. The virial of the forces exerted by the container on the molecules is shown to include terms involving the surface tensions referred to above, and it is proved that the quantities, pressure and surface tensions, occurring in the expression of the Clausius virial theorem, agree with the corresponding thermodynamic quantities. For the tension of a plane surface between phases, an approximate formula is obtained which depends on a suggested approximate form for the pair-distribution function.


2017 ◽  
Vol 919 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
N.A Sorokin

The method of the geopotential parameters determination with the use of the gradiometry data is considered. The second derivative of the gravitational potential in the correction equation on the rectangular coordinates x, y, z is used as a measured variable. For the calculated value of the measured quantity required for the formation of a free member of the correction equation, the the Cunningham polynomials were used. We give algorithms for computing the second derivatives of the Cunningham polynomials on rectangular coordinates x, y, z, which allow to calculate the second derivatives of the geopotential at the rectangular coordinates x, y, z.Then we convert derivatives obtained from the Cartesian coordinate system in the coordinate system of the gradiometer, which allow to calculate the free term of the correction equation. Afterwards the correction equation coefficients are calculated by differentiating the formula for calculating the second derivative of the gravitational potential on the rectangular coordinates x, y, z. The result is a coefficient matrix of the correction equations and corrections vector of the free members of equations for each component of the tensor of the geopotential. As the number of conditional equations is much more than the number of the specified parameters, we go to the drawing up of the system of normal equations, from which solutions we determine the required corrections to the harmonic coefficients.


Filomat ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1009-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Akdemir ◽  
Özdemir Emin ◽  
Ardıç Avcı ◽  
Abdullatif Yalçın

In this paper, firstly we prove an integral identity that one can derive several new equalities for special selections of n from this identity: Secondly, we established more general integral inequalities for functions whose second derivatives of absolute values are GA-convex functions based on this equality.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Fries ◽  
B. M. Coffey

Solution of rail vehicle dynamics models by means of numerical simulation has become more prevalent and more sophisticated in recent years. At the same time, analysts and designers are increasingly interested in the response of vehicles to random rail irregularities. The work described in this paper provides a convenient method to generate random vertical and crosslevel irregularities when their time histories are required as inputs to a numerical simulation. The solution begins with mathematical models of vertical and crosslevel power spectral densities (PSDs) representing PSDs of track classes 4, 5, and 6. The method implements state-space models of shape filters whose frequency response magnitude squared matches the desired PSDs. The shape filters give time histories possessing the proper spectral content when driven by white noise inputs. The state equations are solved directly under the assumption that the white noise inputs are constant between time steps. Thus, the state transition matrix and the forcing matrix are obtained in closed form. Some simulations require not only vertical and crosslevel alignments, but also the first and occasionally the second derivatives of these signals. To accommodate these requirements, the first and second derivatives of the signals are also generated. The responses of the random vertical and crosslevel generators depend upon vehicle speed, sample interval, and track class. They possess the desired PSDs over wide ranges of speed and sample interval. The paper includes a comparison between synthetic and measured spectral characteristics of class 4 track. The agreement is very good.


The vapour pressure theory regards osmotic pressure as the pressure required to produce equilibrium between the pure solvent and the solution. Pressure applied to a solution increases its internal vapour pressure. If the compressed solution be on one aide of a semi-permeable partition and the pure solvent on the other, there is osmotic equilibrium when the com-pression of the solution brings its vapour pressure to equality with that of the solvent. So long ago as 1894 Ramsay* found that with a partition of palladium, permeable to hydrogen but not to nitrogen, the hydrogen pressures on each side tended to equality, notwithstanding the presence of nitrogen under pressure on one side, which it might have been supposed would have resisted tin- transpiration of the hydrogen. The bearing of this experiment on the problem of osmotic pressure was recognised by van’t Hoff, who observes that "it is very instructive as regards the means by which osmotic pressure is produced." But it was not till 1908 that the vapour pressure theory of osmotic pressure was developed on a finu foundation by Calendar. He demonstrated, by the method of the "vapour sieve" piston, the proposition that “any two solutions in equilibrium through any kind of membrane or capillary surface must have the same vapour pressures in respect of each of their constituents which is capable of diffusing through their surface of separation"—a generalisation of great importance for the theory of solutions. Findlay, in his admirable monograph, gives a very complete account of the contending theories of osmotic pressure, a review of which leaves no doubt that at the present moment the vapour pressure theory stands without a serious rival Some confusion of ideas still arises from the want of adherence to a strict definition of osmotic pressure to which numerical data from experimental measurements should he reduced. Tire following definitions appear to be tire outcome of tire vapour pressure theory :— Definition I.—The vapour pressure of a solution is the pressure of the vapour with which it is in equilibrium when under pressure of its own vapour only.


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