[FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

[Roger Critchlow]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:13 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/30/22 11:24, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> > Thermodynamic state functions as derivatives with respect to entropy are
> all over JW Gibb's On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.  It is
> the point.  PW Bridgman's Dimensional Analysis essentially summarizes all
> of physics up to 1922 as a problem of combining and factoring units of
> measurement, one of my favorite library discoveries as an undergraduate.
> Both available in the internet archive.
>
> Thanks to Roger for the Bridgman cite. I got a good PDF of that one. The
> PDF for Gibb will be difficult for me to read. <
> https://archive.org/download/Onequilibriumhe00Gibb/Onequilibriumhe00Gibb.pdf>
> So I'll look for a Dummies derivation.
>

All editions of these Gibbs papers that I've ever seen are the same photo
reproduction of the original articles.  I suspect that no one has ever
dared to try and typeset it again.  I've never met anyone, including
myself, who's claimed to have studied the whole thing.

There's a synopsis of the sections at the end of the second part of the
paper which came in the same pdf as the first part that I downloaded.   I
can't say that I see where the derivatives with respect to entropy get
treated, it certainly isn't obviously all over the place.

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