2.43 | Spring 2024 | Graduate

Advanced Thermodynamics

Lecture 19: Affinity and Nonequilibrium Law of Mass Action; Potential Energy Surface

Potential energy surface. Transitional state and activated complex. Affinity of a reaction. Nonequilibrium law of mass action for ideal and nonideal mixtures and solutions. Affinities vanish at chemical equilibrium. Complete chemical equilibrium.

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