Timeline for Why first law of thermodynamics based on internal energy and not enthalpy
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| Jan 2, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | knzhou | @GovindBalaji That's a different question, you should go ask it! | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 17:09 | comment | added | Govind Balaji | What is the difference between Q and dQ ? How do you define a change in heat? | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 12:54 | comment | added | Chet Miller | Yes, I would agree with this. Enthalpy is just function that we have defined, and that is convenient to work with is solving many different kinds of problems. If we had never defined the enthalpy function, we could still solve these problems. Internal energy is the more fundamental quantity. | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 7:48 | history | answered | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |