Solution

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At fixed entropy, the total differential in coordinates is . Dividing by along that path gives . The same argument in coordinates gives . These are the two required intermediate identities.
To prove the final result without cancelling a possibly vanishing thermal-expansion derivative, write , , , . In a regular thermodynamic region with , fixed pressure gives , while fixed entropy gives . The chain rule then gives and . Both cross-products equal , proving
The heat-capacity and compressibility ratio identity rewrites this as : keeping entropy fixed rather than temperature fixed changes the mechanical stiffness by the same factor as the two thermal responses.

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