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<ul><li><a href="Equation_of_state" title="Equation of state">Equation of state</a></li>
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<li><a href="Thermodynamic_equilibrium" title="Thermodynamic equilibrium">Equilibrium</a></li>
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<li><a href="Isentropic_process" title="Isentropic process">Isentropic</a></li>
<li><a href="Isenthalpic_process" title="Isenthalpic process">Isenthalpic</a></li>
<li><a href="Quasistatic_process" title="Quasistatic process">Quasistatic</a></li>
<li><a href="Polytropic_process" title="Polytropic process">Polytropic</a></li>
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<li><a href="Irreversible_process" title="Irreversible process">Irreversibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Endoreversible_thermodynamics" title="Endoreversible thermodynamics">Endoreversibility</a></li></ul></td>
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<li><a href="Pressure" title="Pressure">Pressure</a> / <i><a href="Volume_(thermodynamics)" title="Volume (thermodynamics)">Volume</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Chemical_potential" title="Chemical potential">Chemical potential</a> / <i><a href="Particle_number" title="Particle number">Particle number</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Vapor_quality" title="Vapor quality">Vapor quality</a></li>
<li><a href="Reduced_properties" title="Reduced properties">Reduced properties</a></li></ul></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Thermodynamic_databases_for_pure_substances" title="Thermodynamic databases for pure substances">Property databases</a></li></ul>
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<li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><i><a href="Reflections_on_the_Motive_Power_of_Fire" title="Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire">Reflections on the<br>Motive Power of Fire</a></i></div></li></ul></td>
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<li><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_Massieu" title="François Massieu">Massieu</a></li>
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<p>In the <a href="Thermodynamics#Equilibrium_thermodynamics" title="Thermodynamics">thermodynamics of equilibrium</a>, a <b>state function</b>, <b>function of state</b>, or <b>point function</b> for a <a href="Thermodynamic_system" title="Thermodynamic system">thermodynamic system</a> is a <a href="Function_(mathematics)" title="Function (mathematics)">mathematical function</a> relating several <a href="State_variables" class="mw-redirect" title="State variables">state variables</a> or state quantities (that describe <a href="Thermodynamic_equilibrium" title="Thermodynamic equilibrium">equilibrium states</a> of a system) that depend only on the current equilibrium <a href="Thermodynamic_state" title="Thermodynamic state">thermodynamic state</a> of the system<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (e.g. gas, liquid, solid, crystal, or <a href="Emulsion" title="Emulsion">emulsion</a>), not the <a href="Thermodynamic_process_path" class="mw-redirect" title="Thermodynamic process path">path</a> which the system has taken to reach that state. A state function describes equilibrium states of a system, thus also describing the type of system. A state variable is typically a state function so the determination of other state variable values at an equilibrium state also determines the value of the state variable as the state function at that state. The <a href="Ideal_gas_law" title="Ideal gas law">ideal gas law</a> is a good example. In this law, one state variable (e.g., pressure, volume, temperature, or the amount of substance in a gaseous equilibrium system) is a function of other state variables so is regarded as a state function. A state function could also describe the number of a certain type of atoms or molecules in a gaseous, liquid, or solid form in a <a href="Heterogeneous_mixture" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterogeneous mixture">heterogeneous</a> or <a href="Homogeneous_mixture" class="mw-redirect" title="Homogeneous mixture">homogeneous mixture</a>, or the amount of energy required to create such a system or change the system into a different equilibrium state.
</p><p><a href="Internal_energy" title="Internal energy">Internal energy</a>, <a href="Enthalpy" title="Enthalpy">enthalpy</a>, and <a href="Entropy" title="Entropy">entropy</a> are examples of state quantities or state functions because they quantitatively describe an equilibrium state of a <a href="Thermodynamic_system" title="Thermodynamic system">thermodynamic system</a>, regardless of how the system has arrived in that state. They are expressed by <a href="Exact_differential" title="Exact differential">exact differentials</a>. In contrast, <a href="Mechanical_work" class="mw-redirect" title="Mechanical work">mechanical work</a> and <a href="Heat" title="Heat">heat</a> are <a href="Process_quantities" class="mw-redirect" title="Process quantities">process quantities</a> or path functions because their values depend on a specific "transition" (or "path") between two equilibrium states that a system has taken to reach the final equilibrium state, being expressed by <a href="Inexact_differential" title="Inexact differential">inexact differentials</a>. Exchanged heat (in certain discrete amounts) can be associated with changes of state function such as enthalpy. The description of the system heat exchange is done by a state function, and thus enthalpy changes point to an amount of heat. This can also apply to entropy when heat is compared to <a href="Temperature" title="Temperature">temperature</a>. The description breaks down for quantities exhibiting <a href="Hysteresis" title="Hysteresis">hysteresis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>It is likely that the term "functions of state" was used in a loose sense during the 1850s and 1860s by those such as <a href="Rudolf_Clausius" title="Rudolf Clausius">Rudolf Clausius</a>, <a href="William_John_Macquorn_Rankine" class="mw-redirect" title="William John Macquorn Rankine">William Rankine</a>, <a href="Peter_Tait_(physicist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Tait (physicist)">Peter Tait</a>, and <a href="William_Thomson%2C_1st_Baron_Kelvin" class="mw-redirect" title="William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin">William Thomson</a>. By the 1870s, the term had acquired a use of its own. In his 1873 paper "Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids", <a href="Willard_Gibbs" class="mw-redirect" title="Willard Gibbs">Willard Gibbs</a> states: "The quantities <i>v</i>, <i>p</i>, <i>t</i>, <i>ε</i>, and <i>η</i> are determined when the state of the body is given, and it may be permitted to call them <i>functions of the state of the body</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>A thermodynamic system is described by a number of thermodynamic parameters (e.g. temperature, <a href="Volume_(thermodynamics)" title="Volume (thermodynamics)">volume</a>, or <a href="Pressure" title="Pressure">pressure</a>) which are not necessarily independent. The number of parameters needed to describe the system is the dimension of the <a href="State_space" class="mw-redirect" title="State space">state space</a> of the system (<span class="texhtml"><i>D</i></span>). For example, a <a href="Monatomic_gas" title="Monatomic gas">monatomic gas</a> with a fixed number of particles is a simple case of a two-dimensional system (<span class="texhtml"><i>D</i> = 2</span>). Any two-dimensional system is uniquely specified by two parameters. Choosing a different pair of parameters, such as pressure and volume instead of pressure and temperature, creates a different coordinate system in two-dimensional thermodynamic state space but is otherwise equivalent. Pressure and temperature can be used to find volume, pressure and volume can be used to find temperature, and temperature and volume can be used to find pressure. An analogous statement holds for <a href="Higher-dimensional_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher-dimensional space">higher-dimensional spaces</a>, as described by the <a href="State_postulate" title="State postulate">state postulate</a>.
</p><p>Generally, a state space is defined by an equation of the form <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle F(P,V,T,\ldots )=0}">
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</p><p>When a system changes state continuously, it traces out a "path" in the state space. The path can be specified by noting the values of the state parameters as the system traces out the path, whether as a function of time or a function of some other external variable. For example, having the pressure <span class="texhtml"><i>P</i>(<i>t</i>)</span> and volume <span class="texhtml"><i>V</i>(<i>t</i>)</span> as functions of time from time <span class="texhtml"><i>t</i><sub>0</sub></span> to <span class="texhtml"><i>t</i><sub>1</sub></span> will specify a path in two-dimensional state space. Any function of time can then be <a href="Integral" title="Integral">integrated</a> over the path. For example, to calculate the <a href="Work_(physics)" title="Work (physics)">work</a> done by the system from time <span class="texhtml"><i>t</i><sub>0</sub></span> to time <span class="texhtml"><i>t</i><sub>1</sub></span>, calculate <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\textstyle W(t_{0},t_{1})=\int _{0}^{1}P\,dV=\int _{t_{0}}^{t_{1}}P(t){\frac {dV(t)}{dt}}\,dt}">
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<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\Phi (t_{0},t_{1})&=\int _{t_{0}}^{t_{1}}P{\frac {dV}{dt}}\,dt+\int _{t_{0}}^{t_{1}}V{\frac {dP}{dt}}\,dt\\&=\int _{t_{0}}^{t_{1}}{\frac {d(PV)}{dt}}\,dt=P(t_{1})V(t_{1})-P(t_{0})V(t_{0}).\end{aligned}}}">
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<p>In the equation, <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\frac {d(PV)}{dt}}dt=d(PV)}">
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</p><p>The notation <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">d</span> will be used for an exact differential. In other words, the integral of <span class="texhtml"><i>d</i>Φ</span> will be equal to <span class="texhtml">Φ(<i>t</i><sub>1</sub>) − Φ(<i>t</i><sub>0</sub>)</span>. The symbol <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">δ</span> will be reserved for an <a href="Inexact_differential" title="Inexact differential">inexact differential</a>, which cannot be integrated without full knowledge of the path. For example, <span class="texhtml"><i>δW</i> = <i>PdV</i></span> will be used to denote an infinitesimal increment of work.
</p><p>State functions represent quantities or properties of a thermodynamic system, while non-state functions represent a process during which the state functions change. For example, the state function <span class="texhtml"><i>PV</i></span> is proportional to the <a href="Internal_energy" title="Internal energy">internal energy</a> of an ideal gas, but the work <span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">W</span> is the amount of energy transferred as the system performs work. Internal energy is identifiable; it is a particular form of energy. Work is the amount of energy that has changed its form or location.
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<p>The following are considered to be state functions in thermodynamics:
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<ul><li><a href="Mass" title="Mass">Mass</a></li>
<li><a href="Energy" title="Energy">Energy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">E</span>)
<ul><li><a href="Enthalpy" title="Enthalpy">Enthalpy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">H</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Internal_energy" title="Internal energy">Internal energy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">U</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Gibbs_free_energy" title="Gibbs free energy">Gibbs free energy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">G</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Helmholtz_free_energy" title="Helmholtz free energy">Helmholtz free energy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">F</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Exergy" title="Exergy">Exergy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">B</span>)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Entropy" title="Entropy">Entropy</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">S</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Pressure" title="Pressure">Pressure</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">P</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Thermodynamic_temperature" title="Thermodynamic temperature">Temperature</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">T</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Volume_(thermodynamics)" title="Volume (thermodynamics)">Volume</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">V</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Chemical_composition" title="Chemical composition">Chemical composition</a></li>
<li><a href="Pressure_altitude" title="Pressure altitude">Pressure altitude</a></li>
<li><a href="Specific_volume" title="Specific volume">Specific volume</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">v</span>) or its reciprocal <a href="Density" title="Density">density</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">ρ</span>)</li>
<li><a href="Particle_number" title="Particle number">Particle number</a> (<span class="texhtml mvar" style="font-style:italic;">n<sub>i</sub></span>)</li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Markov_property" title="Markov property">Markov property</a></li>
<li><a href="Conservative_vector_field" title="Conservative vector field">Conservative vector field</a></li>
<li><a href="Nonholonomic_system" title="Nonholonomic system">Nonholonomic system</a></li>
<li><a href="Equation_of_state" title="Equation of state">Equation of state</a></li>
<li><a href="State_variable" title="State variable">State variable</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCallen1985">Callen 1985</a>, pp. 5, 37</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMandl1988">Mandl 1988</a>, p. 7</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGibbs1873">Gibbs 1873</a>, pp. 309–342</span>
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