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In Chap. 7, we attempted to explain the behavior and properties of macroscopic bodies with the assistance of our knowledge of microscopic interactions. We introduced terms such as entropy S, pressure p, temperature T and chemical potential μ. We called these quantities state variables and the set of state variables was structured by the Gibbs form
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Honerkamp, J., Römer, H. (1993). Applications of Thermodynamics. In: Theoretical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77984-8_8
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