An expression for the entropy S of a monatomic gas that includes the effects of quantum theory:
where R is the gas constant, m is the mass of a gas particle, T is the thermodynamic temperature, V is the volume of the gas, N is the number of particles in the gas, K is the Boltzmann constant, h is the Planck constant, and ln stands for natural logarithm. To calculate the molar entropy of the gas both sides are divided by n. The Sackur–Tetrode equation can be used to show that the entropy change ΔS, when a perfect gas expands isothermally from Vi to Vf, is given by:
where aV is the quantity inside the logarithm bracket in the Sackur–Tetrode equation. This equation was derived independently in 1912 by Hugo Tetrode (1895–1931) and Otto Sackur (1880–1914).