Practice question · True or false
The Helmholtz free energy is the amount of energy stored in a system.
Hints
- Which of the four potentials is actually the stored energy?
- F is constructed so that its DECREASE measures the available work.
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False
Why
False, only is the stored energy. is built so that its decrease gives the maximum work extractable at fixed temperature; the term is the part that must be paid to the surroundings as heat.
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