{"id":164,"date":"2020-06-30T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/chapter\/intensive-extensive-variables\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:50:46","slug":"intensive-extensive-variables","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/chapter\/intensive-extensive-variables\/","title":{"raw":"Intensive &amp; Extensive Variables","rendered":"Intensive &amp; Extensive Variables"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n\nBy the end of this section, you should be able to:\n\n<strong>Apply<\/strong> t<span style=\"font-size: 1em\">he definitions of intensive and extensive properties to process variables<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered\">\n<div class=\"inner_cell\">\n<div class=\"text_cell_render border-box-sizing rendered_html\">\n<h2>Classifying Process Variables<\/h2>\n<strong>Extensive Variables<\/strong> \u2013 depend on the size of a system\n\n<strong>Intensive Variables<\/strong> \u2013 do not depend on the size of a system\n\nAre temperature, pressure, and volume extensive or intensive?\n\n<strong>Temperature:<\/strong> intensive\n\n<strong>Pressure:<\/strong> intensive\n\n<strong>Volume:<\/strong> extensive. Instead we may use <strong>molar volume<\/strong> if we want to express volume as an intensive property. Molar volume is defined by the volume occupied by 1 mole of the substance inside the system: [latex]\\hat V=\\frac{V}{n}[\/latex].\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered\">\n<div class=\"prompt input_prompt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<p>By the end of this section, you should be able to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply<\/strong> t<span style=\"font-size: 1em\">he definitions of intensive and extensive properties to process variables<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered\">\n<div class=\"inner_cell\">\n<div class=\"text_cell_render border-box-sizing rendered_html\">\n<h2>Classifying Process Variables<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Extensive Variables<\/strong> \u2013 depend on the size of a system<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intensive Variables<\/strong> \u2013 do not depend on the size of a system<\/p>\n<p>Are temperature, pressure, and volume extensive or intensive?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> intensive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pressure:<\/strong> intensive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volume:<\/strong> extensive. Instead we may use <strong>molar volume<\/strong> if we want to express volume as an intensive property. Molar volume is defined by the volume occupied by 1 mole of the substance inside the system: [latex]\\hat V=\\frac{V}{n}[\/latex].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered\">\n<div class=\"prompt input_prompt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-164","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/154"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/164\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/chbe220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}