A look back at the Ehrenfest classification

Tilman Sauer

doi:10.1140/epjst/e2016-60344-y

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A look back at the Ehrenfest classification

Translation and commentary of Ehrenfest's 1933 paper introducing the notion of phase transitions of different order

Tilman Sauer^a

Institute of Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany

Received: 25 October 2016
Revised: 24 November 2016
Published online: 5 April 2017

Abstract

A translation of Paul Ehrenfest's 1933 paper, entitled Phase transitions in the usual and generalized sense, classified according to the singularities of the thermodynamic potential is presented. Some historical commentary about the paper's context is also given.

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