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Verified for the 2026 examโขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
Definition
Thermodynamic data refers to information about heat transfer, energy changes, temperature changes etc., associated with physical processes or reactions under specific conditions.
Related terms
Enthalpy (H): This is the total energy of a system. It includes both the internal energy of the system and the energy associated with it due to its pressure-volume work.
Entropy (S): This is a measure of disorder or randomness in a system.
Gibbs Free Energy (G): This is the maximum amount of non-expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system at constant temperature and pressure without any outside intervention.