BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Isolated System, Thermodynamics, Metabolic Waste

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Organisms are open systems: they absorb energy- light or chemical energy in organic molecules- and release heat and metabolic waste products, order can increase locally but there is a trend toward randomization of the universe. Interested in the change as the system moves from state to state. Interested in difference of energy between two states (initial and final state: difference between two states, eg: products and reactants, path independent, how you go from beginning to end state is irrelevant. Interested only in difference of energy between two states. Thermodynamics- science of energy transformations: energy: capacity to do work, entropy: disorder, free energy: energy available to perform work. Is directly related to the equilibrium of a reaction: doesn"t tell how fast the system comes to equilibrium, kinetics tells us about rates. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed. Change in free energy resulting from a process.

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