Maxwell relations

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

The Maxwell relations in thermodynamics can be derived from the symmetry of second derivatives and the definitions of the thermodynamic potentials, or from Jacobian determinants. The most common Maxwell relations involve the potential functions

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Maxwell relations”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.