Physical Chemistry, Part 21:  Heat, state functions, and Gibbs' Definition of Entropy
Channel: StrangerThanFic
Date: 2022-03-25

This time, we'll think more about heat and entropy, and find out whether it's a path function or a state function.  We'll also look at Josiah Gibbs, a giant in the field of thermodynamics, and a person who gave us a wonderfully useful definition of entropy based on thermodynamic properties like heat, as opposed to the statistical definition by Boltzmann we saw in the last video.  But Gibbs was perhaps not the world's most clear writer...