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In Sect. 3.7 we have derived the equilibrium conditions for thermodynamic systems. Those considerations can be further generalized. In the form of a gedanken-experiment, we divided the total system into two fictitious partial systems and therewith created a simple non-equilibrium situation. The system reacted to this situation in a definite manner and provided therewith information about the behavior of certain state quantities at equilibrium.
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Nolting, W. (2017). Phases, Phase Transitions. In: Theoretical Physics 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47910-1_4
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