Enthalpy
Definition of the enthalpy, H
where is the internal energy, is the pressure, is the volume and (-pV) is a conjugate pair. The differential of this function is
From the Second law of thermodynamics one obtains
thus we arrive at
For H(S,p) we have the following total differential
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