Lecture-Notes (Thermodynamics) - niser
Lecture-Notes (Thermodynamics) - niser
Lecture-Notes (Thermodynamics) - niser
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4.8. ENTROPY AND DISORDER 37<br />
By introducing the isochore pressure coefficient<br />
it is possible to rewrite CP − CV as<br />
Indeed,<br />
β = 1<br />
P<br />
α<br />
kT<br />
⇒ CP − CV = α2<br />
β = 1<br />
P<br />
4.8 Entropy and disorder<br />
kT<br />
<br />
∂P<br />
∂T V<br />
β 2 TV kTP 2 .<br />
⇒ α = βPkT ⇒<br />
TV = β2 P 2 k 2 T<br />
kT<br />
,<br />
TV = β 2 TV kTP 2 .<br />
We want now to establish a connection between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics,<br />
which we will be learning in the second half of the course.<br />
1. We give a definition of the multiplicity of a macrostate as<br />
⎛<br />
number of microstates<br />
multiplicity of<br />
= ⎝ that correspond to the<br />
a macrostate<br />
macrostate<br />
2. The entropy can be defined in terms of the multiplicity as<br />
S ≡ k ln (multiplicity) .<br />
We shall see in statistical mechanics that this definition is equivalent to the phenomenological<br />
concept we have learnt previously in this section.<br />
3. With the above definition of entropy at hand, we can formulate the second law of<br />
thermodynamics in this way:<br />
4.<br />
”If an isolated system of many particles is allowed to change, then, with large probability,<br />
it will evolve to the macrostate of largest entropy and will remain in that<br />
macrostate.”<br />
(energy input by heating)<br />
∆Sany system ≥ ,<br />
T<br />
where T is the temperature of the reservoir.<br />
5. If two macroscopic systems are in thermal equilibrium and in thermal contact, the<br />
entropy of the composite system equals the sum of the two individual entropies.<br />
⎞<br />
⎠.