Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 1 35D b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
At fixed volume, entropy from heat capacity obeys . The Third law of thermodynamics fixes when the ground state is nondegenerate, so below the transitionAbove the transition,For a transition with no latent heat, entropy is continuous, and comparison with gives the directly testable relationThus calorimetric measurements of and verify . More generally, if a measurable latent heat is present, , and the formula becomes