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For example, when gravity effects can be neglected, the ratio of the extensive properties mass and volume, the density, is an intensive property.
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Physical properties of materials and systems are often described as intensive and extensive properties. This classification relates to the dependency of the properties upon the size or extent of the system or object in question. The distinction is based on the concept that smaller, non-interacting identical subdivisions of the system may be identified so that the property of interest does or does not change when the system is divided or combined. An intensive property is a bulk property, meaning that it is a physical property of a system that does not depend on the system size or the amount of material in the system. Examples of intensive properties are the temperature, refractive index, density and the hardness of an object. No matter how small a diamond is cut, it maintains its intrinsic hardness. By contrast, an extensive property is one that is additive for independent, noninteracting subsystems.[1] The property is proportional to the amount of material in the system. For example, both the mass and the volume of a diamond are directly proportional to the amount that is left after cutting it from the raw mineral. Mass and volume are extensive properties, but hardness is intensive. The ratio of two extensive properties is scale-invariant, and is therefore an intensive property. For example, when gravity effects can be neglected, the ratio of the extensive properties mass and volume, the density, is an intensive property. This terminology of intensive and extensive properties was introduced by Richard C. Tolman in 1917.[2] Contents
1 Intensive properties 1.1 Combined intensive properties 1.2 Examples 2 Extensive properties 2.1 Combined extensive properties 2.2 Examples 3 Related extensive and intensive properties 4 Generality of classification 5 References Intensive properties
An intensive property is a physical quantity whose value does not depend on the amount of the substance for which it is measured. For example, the temperatureof a system in thermal equilibrium is the same as the temperature of any part of it. If the system is divided the temperature of each subsystem is identical. The same applies to the density of a homogeneous system; if the system is divided in half, the mass and the volume change in the identical ratio and the density remains unchanged. Additionally, the boiling point of a substance is another example of an intensive property. For example, the boiling point for water is 100°C at a pressure of one atmosphere, a fact which remains true regardless of quantity. According to the state postulate, for a sufficiently simple thermodynamic system, only two independent intensive variables are needed to fully specify the entire state of a system. Other intensive properties can be derived from the two known values. Some intensive properties, such as viscosity, are empirical macroscopic quantitiesand are not relevant to extremely small systems. Combined intensive properties There are four properties in any thermodynamic system, two are intensive and two are extensive. If the set of parameters, , are intensive properties and another set, , are extensive
properties, then the function is an intensive property if for all ,
It follows, for example, that the ratio of two extensive properties is an intensive property - density (intensive) is equal to mass (extensive) divided by volume (extensive). Examples Examples of intensive properties include: chemical potential concentration density (or specific gravity) ductility elasticity electrical resistivity hardness magnetic field magnetization malleability melting point andboiling point
Gibbs energy length mass particle number momentum number of moles volume magnetic moment electrical charge weight Related extensive and intensive properties
Thermodynamics
The classical Carnot heat engine Branches Classical Statistical Chemical Equilibrium / Non-equilibrium Laws Zeroth First Second Third Systems State Equation of state Ideal gas Real gas
State of matter Equilibrium Control volume Instruments Processes Isobaric Isochoric Isothermal Adiabatic Isentropic Isenthalpic Quasistatic Polytropic Free expansion Reversibility Irreversibility Endoreversibility Cycles Heat engines Heat pumps Thermal efficiency
System properties Property diagrams Intensive and extensive properties Functions of state (Conjugate variables in italics) Temperature / entropy Introduction to entropy pressure / volume chemical
Helmholtz free energy
Gibbs free energy
History / Culture Philosophy Entropy and time Entropy and life Brownian ratchet Maxwell's demon Heat death paradox Loschmidt's paradox Synergetics History General Heat Entropy Gas laws "Perpetual motion" machines Theories Caloric theory Vis viva Theory of heat Mechanical equivalent of heat Motive power Key publications "An Experimental Enquiry Concerning ... Heat" "On the Equilibrium of
Heterogeneous Substances" "Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" Timelines Thermodynamics Heat engines Art Maxwell's thermodynamic surface Education Entropy as energy dispersal
Scientists Bernoulli Carnot Clapeyron Clausius Carathéodory Pierre Duhem Gibbs von Helmholtz Joule Maxwell von Mayer Onsager Rankine Smeaton Stahl Thompson
at constant pressure at constant pressure Corresponding extensive and intensive thermodynamic properties
Linder, Bruno. (2004).Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-47459-2.
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