CHEM-1602 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Molar Mass, Reversible Reaction, Spontaneous Process

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The most efficient use of energy generally occurs with the smallest number of transactions. A spontaneous process is one that occurs without ongoing outside intervention. A catalyst cannot change a nonspontaneous process into a spontaneous one. A nonspontaneous process can be made spontaneous by: coupling it to another process that is spontaneous, supplying energy from an external source. Most spontaneous processes are exothermic, but some are endothermic. Entropy: disorder or randomness (s): thermodynamic function that increases with the number of energetically equivalent ways to arrange the components of a system to achieve a particular state. , where k = boltzmann"s constant and w = number of energetically equivalence ways to arrange the components of the system units of entropy: j/k. The exact internal energy distribution among the particles at any one instant is sometimes referred to as a microstate. The microstate can change but the macrostate (p,v,t) stays constant.

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