Tag: Legendre transformation

• Free Energy and Thermodynamic Potentials: Trading Variables You Cannot Fix for Ones You CanLegendre transformation replaces the natural variables (S,V,N) of internal energy by the controllable (T,p,μ), giving F, H, G, Ω, maximum work, and the Maxwell relations.PhysicsThermodynamics and Statistical MechanicsUndergraduatethermodynamicsfree energyLegendre transformationMaxwell relationsresponse functions~23 min