Enthalpy

Source: Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, PhD,Asantha Cooray, PhD, Department of Physics & Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA

When a pot of water is placed on a hot stove, heat is said to "flow" from the stove to the water. When two or more objects are placed into th...

Enthalpy is a type of energy that flows between objects of different temperatures.

In order to understand enthalpy, one must be familiar with the first law of thermodynamics, which states that the energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms. And the total amount of energy in a system is constant.

The concept of en...