State Properties

[Tiahna Thomas 2C]

Besides enthalpy, what are other examples of state properties, and why are they considered to be so?

[Kavya Anand 2B]

Another example of a state property is entropy, because the change in entropy can be calculated by using the final and initial values (ignores the path of the reaction).

[Kristen Bansil 1G]

Some examples online of state properties include altitude, pressure, volume, temp, internal energy. The reason why these are state properties is that their values/quantities do not rely on how the substance is produced, or in other words, they are independent from other values.

[Rachel Lee]

Pressure, volume, and temperature are all state properties. They're state properties because only the initial and final values matter when it comes to calculating change; it's independent of how the substance progressed throughout the entire reaction. Thus, something like work is not a state property because it's dependent on how it changed from the beginning to the end.

[Julia Chow]

Two other examples are density and heat capacity - a substance's density is not dependent on how the the substance is obtained. Furthermore, how heat is added does not change the temperature outcome.

[Viviana Hsiao 1G]

other state properties include volume, temperature, density, heat capacity, energy, and pressure. they are considered to be state properties because they are not dependent on the path taken to obtain that state. you only need to know the initial and final states.

[Jaylin Heggins 1A]

Other state properties include volume, temperature, heat, and density. They are called state properties because their value is not dependent on the path taken to get to that state.

[AChassion Dis2A]

In class, he gave the example of altitude and obviously we won't be using altitude but I feel like it's a good model.
Temperature and volume are other state properties. Think of the tangible bits where its a "net" kind of function. If I'm comparing the difference between today at 12pm and yesterday at 12pm, I don't care that the heat of the day was at 2 PM. When finding a change in volume we can simply apply final-initial- which we wouldn't be able to do with final minus initial.

The opposite would be a path function. If you took calc, maybe think of the difference between distance traveled (path function) and displacement!

[Hope_Hayashida_3E]

Entropy, volume, and temperature are also examples of state properties. It's not about the process/how the substance was prepared, rather it is a completely quantitative value that can be calculated by adding up the steps (final-initial).

[samaagwani-disc2L]

In lecture we talked about different examples of state properties. These included energy, pressure, density, heat capacity, and temperature. Hope this helps:)