A Brief History of Thermodynamics Notation

Rubin Battino; Laurence E. Strong; Scott E. Wood

doi:10.1021/ed074p304

A Brief History of Thermodynamics Notation

Rubin Battino, Laurence E. Strong, Scott E. Wood

Chemistry

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This paper gives a brief history of thermodynamic notation for the energy, E, enthalpy, H, entropy, S, Gibbs energy, G, Helmholtz energy, A, work, W, heat, Q, pressure, P, volume, V, and temperature, T. In particular, the paper answers the question, "Where did the symbol S for entropy come from?"

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	304-305
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Chemical Education
Volume	74
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ed074p304
State	Published - Mar 1 1997

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General Chemistry
Education

Keywords

History
Introductory Chemistry
Thermodynamics

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Chemistry
Thermodynamics

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