Answer to Question #192515 in Organic Chemistry for Ritik

Question

What is a state function? Is work a state function?

Answer 1

State function-These function are the function which are depend on the initial and final position of the system or we can say that these function does not depend on the path that is used to get that state.

Work can not be the state function because it is proportional to distance

($W=F\times D$ ) ,which depends on the path used to go from initial and final state.