Maxwell relations
Equations involving the partial derivatives of thermodynamic quantities / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maxwell's relations are a set of equations in thermodynamics which are derivable from the symmetry of second derivatives and from the definitions of the thermodynamic potentials. These relations are named for the nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
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For electromagnetic equations, see Maxwell's equations.