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An alternative to free energy for undergraduate instruction
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Stem EducationEngineeringStudent LearningEnergy EfficiencyEntropyEntropy FunctionsEntropy ProductionGibbs MeasureEquilibrium ThermodynamicsEnergy ConservationEducationUndergraduate InstructionProbability TheoryGibbs FunctionMathematical StatisticThermodynamic EquilibriumHigher EducationStatistics
It is the purpose of this paper to question the usefulness of the Gibbs function for the student and to propose an alternative based on the use of entropy functions that help the student to focus more sharply on the features of a system that relate to its capacity to change.