Chapter 1
Gases and fluids

1.1 Introduction
1.2 The perfect gas
1.3 The perfect gas law - a thermal equation of state
1.4 Temperature and temperature scales
1.5 Applications of the perfect gas equation
1.6 Description of real gases: Compression factor
1.7 Virial coefficients: empirical approx. of the compression factor
1.8 Condensation of real gases
1.9 Supercritical fluids (SCF) - properties and applications
1.10 Van-der-Waals (vdW) equation
1.11 Maxwell construction and subcritical isotherms
1.11.1 Critical constants and vdW equation
1.11.2 vdW equation and Leiden form
1.12 Corresponding states (cs) and reduced variables

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