Abstract
Thermodynamic relations.—Using the assumption that the pressure of a real gas approaches nRTV as the volume approaches infinity, there are developed general thermodynamic equations for the energy, heat content, entropy, thermodynamic potentials FV,T and Fp,T, chemical potential and fugacity of a pure gas in terms of the appropriate independent variables V, T, n, or p, T, n. Each expression contains a definite integral which can be evaluated by use of an equation of state. The integrations are carried out by means of a new equation of state and all the thermodynamic quantities are expressed in terms of the variable V, T, n and the constants of the equation of the state.