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  2. Thermal expansion - Wikipedia

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    If the volumetric expansion coefficient does change appreciably with temperature, or the increase in volume is significant, then the above equation will have to be integrated: ⁡ (+) = = ⁡ (()) where () is the volumetric expansion coefficient as a function of temperature T, and and are the initial and final temperatures respectively.

  3. Compressibility - Wikipedia

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    where γ is the heat capacity ratio, α is the volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion, ρ = N/V is the particle density, and = (/) is the thermal pressure coefficient. In an extensive thermodynamic system, the application of statistical mechanics shows that the isothermal compressibility is also related to the relative size of fluctuations ...

  4. Van der Waals equation - Wikipedia

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    The two first partial derivatives of the vdW equation are | = = | = + = where = is the isothermal compressibility (a measure of the relative increase of volume from an increase of pressure, at constant temperature), and = is the coefficient of thermal expansion (a measure of the relative increase of volume from an increase of temperature, at ...

  5. Relations between heat capacities - Wikipedia

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    The laws of thermodynamics imply the following relations between these two heat capacities (Gaskell 2003:23): = = Here is the thermal expansion coefficient: = is the isothermal compressibility (the inverse of the bulk modulus):

  6. Heat capacity ratio - Wikipedia

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    In thermal physics and thermodynamics, the heat capacity ratio, also known as the adiabatic index, the ratio of specific heats, or Laplace's coefficient, is the ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure (C P) to heat capacity at constant volume (C V).

  7. Maxwell relations - Wikipedia

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    is pressure, temperature, volume, entropy, coefficient of thermal expansion, compressibility, heat capacity at constant volume, heat capacity at constant pressure. Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in thermodynamics which are derivable from the symmetry of second derivatives and from the definitions of the thermodynamic potentials .

  8. Grüneisen parameter - Wikipedia

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    Some formulations for the Grüneisen parameter include: = = = = = (⁡ ⁡) where V is volume, and are the principal (i.e. per-mass) heat capacities at constant pressure and volume, E is energy, S is entropy, α is the volume thermal expansion coefficient, and are the adiabatic and isothermal bulk moduli, is the speed of sound in the medium ...

  9. Dilatometer - Wikipedia

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    A dilatometer is a scientific instrument that measures volume changes caused by a physical or chemical process. A familiar application of a dilatometer is the mercury-in-glass thermometer, in which the change in volume of the liquid column is read from a graduated scale. Because mercury has a fairly constant rate of expansion over ambient ...