Name the Experiment!

What is it about?

I describe a sequence of activities to help students connect the partial derivatives in thermodynamics with experiments that could measure those partial derivatives.

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Why is it important?

Students often see thermodynamics as involving meaningless mathematical manipulation of partial derivatives, which has little inherent interest. By equipping students to see each partial derivative as a quantity that they can interpret physically, we bring interest to this math, and ground it in physical reality.