Consider the compounds butanoic acid, pentanal, n-hexane,

25 sept  States and State Functions o Thermodynamics  the scientific study of the interconversion of heat and other kinds of energy (includes thermochemistry) o State of a system  a macroscopic condition of a system defined by a set of state functions o State Properties (Functions)  properties determined by the state of the system, regardless of how that condition was achieved  energy, pressure, volume, temperature, mass, composition  The First law of thermodynamics o energy can be converted from o