FreeEnergyandEquilibria.pptVIP

Free Energy and Equilibria DG 0 process is spontaneous DG 0 reverse process is spontaneous DG = 0 no change is spontaneous: Equilibrium Le Chatelier’s principle gives us some understanding of how the equilibrium of a system changes when we perturb it. We are interested in how systems tend towards equilibrium and what obstacles keep them out of equilibrium. The free energy, or more correctly, the chemical potential is our measure of roughly how far we have to go to come to equilibrium. It is a potential energy of sorts. Chemical Potential The chemical potential can be used to give