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Offline eagerinsight

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Dependence of Gibbs energy on pressure?
« on: September 21, 2008, 11:58:04 PM »
I was asked to answer the following;

"Suggest a physical interpretation of the dependence of the Gibbs energy on the pressure."

What am I being asked to answer? Are they asking me for an example?

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Re: Dependence of Gibbs energy on pressure?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2008, 02:52:59 AM »
It's a very broad question, so I'm not sure what they're asking,  but perhaps you could consider the value of $$ \left( \frac{\partial G}{\partial P}\right)_T /$$

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Re: Dependence of Gibbs energy on pressure?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2008, 10:19:59 PM »
Very broad, my professor was not clear when he explained what his definition of a physical interpretation?

I was going to go with your suggested value and talk about how G increases when p increases? And talk about G's sensitivity to p for gases.

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