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Internal Energy

Bir sistemin iç enerjisi, sistemdeki tüm tek tek atomların kinetik ve potansiyel enerjilerinin toplamı olarak tanımlanabilir.
Tek atomlu ideal bir gaz sistemini düşünün. Gaz sabit hacimde ısıtıldığında atomların kinetik enerjisi artar ancak atomlar arasında etkileşim olmadığı için potansiyel enerjileri sıfır kalır.
Bu nedenle, iç enerji, monoatomik atomların ortalama kinetik enerjisine bağlıdır. N'nin gaz atomlarının sayısı, kB'nin Boltzmann sabiti ve T'nin sıcaklığı olduğu iki NkBT'nin üzerinde üç olarak ifade edilir. Bu nedenle, sabit hacimde ideal bir gazın iç enerjisi sadece sıcaklığa bağlıdır.
Bir sistemin iç enerjisi bir durum fonksiyonudur. Oda sıcaklığına soğutulmuş kaynar su, buzun oda sıcaklığına eritilmesiyle elde edilen su ile aynı iç enerjiye sahiptir.
Bu nedenle, iç enerji, onu elde etmek için kullanılan yola değil, yalnızca sistemin durumuna bağlıdır. Bu nedenle, yoldan bağımsızdır.

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İç enerji

Bir termodinamik sistemin iç enerjisi, sistemdeki tüm moleküllerin veya varlıkların kinetik ve potansiyel enerjilerinin toplamıdır. Bir tek molekülün kinetik enerjisi, dönme ve titreşime, ayrıca translasyonel enerjiye katkılar içerir. Potansiyel enerji ise sadece bir molekül ile sistemdeki diğer moleküller arasındaki etkileşimlerle ilişkilidir. İç enerji açısından sistemın konumu veya hareketi önemli değildir.

Bir ideal tek atomlu gazı düşünün. Burada, her bir molekül tek bir atomdur. Sonuç olarak, dönme veya titreşim kinetik enerjisi yoktur. Ayrıca, atomlar arası etkileşimler bulunmadığından potansiyel enerji sıfır kabul edilir. İç enerji bu nedenle sadece translasyonel kinetik enerjinin bir sonucudur. Bu nedenle, ideal bir gazın iç enerjisi sadece molekül sayısı ile molekül başına düşen ortalama kinetik enerjinin çarpımıdır. Bu nedenle, ideal tek atomlu gazın n molü için iç enerji şu şekilde verilir:

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Görülebilir ki, ideal tek atomlu gazın belirli bir miktarının iç enerjisi sıcaklığa bağlı olup, gazın basınç ve hacminden bağımsızdır. Diğer sistemler için, iç enerji bu kadar basit bir şekilde ifade edilemez. Ancak, iç enerjideki bir artış çoğunlukla sıcaklıkta bir artışla ilişkilendirilebilir.

Genel olarak, bir sisteme eklenen ısı miktarı Q ve süreç sırasında sistem hiçbir iş yapmazsa, iç enerji Q kadar artar. Bir sistem çevresine karşı genişleyerek W iş yaparsa ve süreç sırasında hiçbir ısı eklenmezse, enerji sistemi terk eder ve iç enerji azalır. Q ve W yoluna bağlı olmasına rağmen, bir termodinamik süreç sırasında sistemin iç enerjisindeki değişim sadece başlangıç ve son durumlara bağlıdır, birinden diğerine giden yol ile ilgili değildir.

İç Enerji

Termodinamik bir sistemin iç enerjisi, sistemdeki tüm moleküllerin veya varlıkların kinetik ve potansiyel enerjilerinin toplamıdır. Kinetik ...

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how internal energy changes in gas systems

Internal energy is the energy stored inside a thermodynamic system. It is the sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the molecules or other particles in the system. Molecular kinetic energy includes translational motion, rotation, and vibration. Molecular potential energy comes from interactions between molecules.

A system’s location and overall motion do not affect its internal energy. For an ideal monatomic gas, each particle is a single atom. That means there is no rotational or vibrational kinetic energy. There are also no interatomic interactions, so the potential energy is taken as zero.

In that case, the internal energy comes only from translational kinetic energy. So the internal energy of an ideal gas depends on the number of molecules and the average kinetic energy per molecule. For n moles of an ideal monatomic gas, the internal energy is set by temperature. It does not depend on the gas pressure or volume.

For other systems, internal energy is not so easy to write in a simple form. Even so, a rise in internal energy is often linked to a rise in temperature. When heat Q is added to a system and the system does no work, the internal energy increases by the same amount. When a system does work W by expanding against its surroundings and no heat is added, energy leaves the system and the internal energy decreases.

Heat Q and work W depend on the path taken during the process. The change in internal energy does not. It depends only on the initial and final states of the system.

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