A Simple Method to Reduce Thermodynamic Derivatives by Computer
Computational Physics
2014-02-11 v1 Physics Education
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Studies in thermodynamics often require the reduction of some first or second order partial derivatives in terms of a smaller basic set. A simple algorithm to perform such a reduction is presented here, together with a review of earlier related works. The algorithm uses Jacobians and is written in Maple language, but it is easily translated in terms of any other computer algebra language.
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@article{arxiv.1401.7728,
title = {A Simple Method to Reduce Thermodynamic Derivatives by Computer},
author = {Jacques H. H. Perk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7728},
year = {2014}
}
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