BSCI 105 Lecture Notes - Glycerol, Insulin, Rubisco

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Biological Sciences Program
• Course: BSCI 105
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Second law of thermodynamics: entropy in the universe always increases, energy is always being dispersed and spread out and it is not doing anything, entropy a measure of disorder or randomness, energy can be used to increased order in a system entropy decreases, energy is made available to do work as order decreases in the system entropy increases, we can store and release energy. T = temperature (k: g = h ts, g = useable energy, h = total energy, s = entropy, enthalpy = energy stored in chemical bonds, delta g rxn = g products g reactants. That is going to tell us if we stored or used energy: positive, endergonic: energy required, reactants are less than products, check graph in book, the products of the rxn contain more free energy than the reactants, delta h is higher or delta s is lower.