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Enthalpy in isochoric process
Enthalpy is a convenient quantity which often arises in many practical situations, but it is not a fundamental energy entity like internal energy. For isochoric heating, $\Delta H=\Delta U+V\Delta P&...
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How is van der Waals' constant b measure of repulsion
The constant $b$ is not really a measure of repulsion but from geometric considerations it is approximately four times the total volume of all $n$ molecules in the gas. The ideal gas equation can then ...
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