Physical Chemistry, Part 29:  Maxwell Relations -- Derivation
Channel: StrangerThanFic
Date: 2022-04-13

This'll be the first of a two-part sequence about Maxwell relations,  a powerful tool that relates the entropy to the pressure, volume, and temperature of a chemical reaction.  To do it, we'll introduce a new mathematical technique: the total derivative!  Maxwell relations are particularly handy because they're applicable no matter what the conditions of our chemical reaction are -- the pressure, volume, and temperature can *all* change, which makes the Maxwell relations applicable to most scenarios we encounter in the lab!  In the next video, we'll start using them to solve problems and explore the thermodynamic properties of reactions.