BIO 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thermodynamic System, Thermodynamic Potential, Enthalpy

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Describe the energy of a biochemical reaction in terms of enthalpy and entropy. Explain how gibb"s free energy describes the spontaneity of a reaction. Understand how the free energy change of a chemical reaction is affected by the concentrations of the reactants and products. Calculate the spontaneity of a reaction given changes in enthalpy, entropy and temperature. Thermodynamics is a set of laws which relates or describes a relationship between energy work and heat. Energy we define as the capacity to do work. For example if you have two weights one is lying on the floor one is raised up, the one that"s raised up has more energy because it has the ability to fall and raise something else. Work therefore in this example is the transfer of energy from the system to the surroundings in a way that we can raise the weight. Work can be movement of a small molecule across a membrane in a cell.

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