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Gibbs's thermodynamic surface is the expression of the thermodynamic relationship between the entropy, volume and energy of a substance at varied temperature and pressure. This thermodynamic expression is the basis of Maxwell's thermodynamic surface, a model that provides a three-dimensional plot of the various states of a fictitious substance with water-like properties. This plot has coordinates volume (x), entropy (y), and energy (z).
References
- Muriel Rukeyser (1942), Willard Gibbs American Genius (reprinted by Ox Bow Press, ISBN 0-918024-57-9), p. 203.
- Cropper, William H (2004). Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking. p. 118. ISBN 9780195173246.
- Thomas G.West (February 1999). "James Clerk Maxwell, Working in Wet Clay". SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Newsletter. 33 (1): 15–17. doi:10.1145/563666.563671.