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Entropy concavity and positive heat capacity

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For a thermodynamically stable system, the entropy is concave in energy, so
∂E2∂2S​=−T21​∂E∂T​<0.
(1)
Consequently ∂E/∂T>0: energy increases with temperature, and the corresponding heat capacity is positive.

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