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A group of coordinate transformations which preserve the metric of Weinhold

Peter SalamonDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182Ed IhrigDepartment of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281R. Stephen BerryDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Abstract

Recently Weinhold described a natural metric on the state space of an equilibrium thermodynamic system. We describe the coordinate transformations which preserve both the first law of thermodynamics and this metric.

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