BIOL130 Lecture 3: BIOL 130 Lecture 3: Unit 3: Thermodynamics and Catalysis

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Unit 3: thermodynamics and catalysis - september 29. 1st law: energy can"t be created or destroyed, only transferred from one molecule to another. 2nd law: capacity of a system to do work. Energy is the capacity of a system to do work. Stored because of structure within molecules: covalent bonds with electrons in high energy state. Chemical reactions can provide a useful form of cellular energy that the cell can use to do work. Always takes energy to break a bond. Always releases energy when u make a new bond. : forming some types of new bonds can free more energy than was required to break the old bond. Therefore breaking these types of bonds releases energy. Making of new bonds is more favourable ad takes more energy than to break the initial bond. 2nd law: capacity of a system to do work, energy tends to spontaneously disperse, every thing in the universe is going to chaos.

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