BI110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Exothermic Process, Enthalpy, Equilibrium Point

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Thermodynamics: study of energy and its transformations. 2 types: kinetic and potential: 1st law. Energy can be transformed; not created/destroyed: 2nd law. Total disorder (entropy) of system and its surroundings always increases. Energy content and entropy contribute to making a reaction spontaneous: spontaneous reaction. Occur w/o input of energy from surroundings. Spontaneous doesn"t mean fast: reactions tend to be spontaneous if products have less potential energy than reactants. Enthalpy (h) --> potential energy in system (total amt. of energy in system: reactions tend to be spontaneous when products are less ordered than reactants. Potential energy of products and reactants: endothermic reactions. Absorption of energy (products have more potential energy than reactants: exothermic reactions. Release of energy (reactants have more potential energy than products) Ch4 + 2o2 --> co2 + 2h2o. Phase changes result in increase in entropy. Liquid has more entropy than solid; gas has more entropy than liquid.

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