Skip to main content
Physics

Return to Answer

deleted 233 characters in body
Source Link
lemon
lemon
  • 13.3k
  • 2
  • 43
  • 48

Well you can construct artificial force fields that would result in an infinite decrease in free energy. For example, if all of your particles interacted via the potentials

$$U(r)=-\frac{1}{r}$$

However, in the real world, the interatomicInteratomic potentials have a finite minimum which means that the overall enthalpy of the system has a finite minimum. And any finite system also has a finite maximum entropy.

Well you can construct artificial force fields that would result in an infinite decrease in free energy. For example, if all of your particles interacted via the potentials

$$U(r)=-\frac{1}{r}$$

However, in the real world, the interatomic potentials have a finite minimum which means that the overall enthalpy of the system has a finite minimum. And any finite system also has a finite maximum entropy.

Interatomic potentials have a finite minimum which means that the overall enthalpy of the system has a finite minimum. And any finite system also has a finite maximum entropy.

Source Link
lemon
lemon
  • 13.3k
  • 2
  • 43
  • 48

Well you can construct artificial force fields that would result in an infinite decrease in free energy. For example, if all of your particles interacted via the potentials

$$U(r)=-\frac{1}{r}$$

However, in the real world, the interatomic potentials have a finite minimum which means that the overall enthalpy of the system has a finite minimum. And any finite system also has a finite maximum entropy.