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Telemachus
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Hi there. I'm trying to solve this problem, which says:
A system is in equilibrium with its envornment at a common temperature and a common pressure. The entropy of the system is increased slightly (by a fluctation in which heat flows into the system, or by the purposeful injection of heat into the system). Explain the implication of both the Le Chatelier and the Le Chatelier-Braun principles to the ensuing processes, proving your assertions in detail.
I don't know how to start with this.
I know form the book that if I have a spontaneous fluctuation [tex]dX_1^f[/tex] in my composite system then this fluctuation will be accompanied by a change in intensive parameter [tex]P_1[/tex] of the subsystem, and then I have this equation:
[tex]dP_1^f=\frac{\partial P_1}{\partial X_1}dX_1[/tex]
And that the fluctuation [tex]dX_1^f[/tex] also alters intensive parameter [tex]P_2[/tex]
[tex]dP_2^f=\frac{\partial P_2}{\partial X_1}dX_1[/tex]
This is how the book explains it, then it makes a reasoning based on the responses. The thing is I don't know how to relate this with the specific problem I'm dealing with, I don't know how to use the fluctuation on the entropy, and I don't know which kind of responses that will produce.
Would you help me?
Thanks in advance. Bye there!
A system is in equilibrium with its envornment at a common temperature and a common pressure. The entropy of the system is increased slightly (by a fluctation in which heat flows into the system, or by the purposeful injection of heat into the system). Explain the implication of both the Le Chatelier and the Le Chatelier-Braun principles to the ensuing processes, proving your assertions in detail.
I don't know how to start with this.
I know form the book that if I have a spontaneous fluctuation [tex]dX_1^f[/tex] in my composite system then this fluctuation will be accompanied by a change in intensive parameter [tex]P_1[/tex] of the subsystem, and then I have this equation:
[tex]dP_1^f=\frac{\partial P_1}{\partial X_1}dX_1[/tex]
And that the fluctuation [tex]dX_1^f[/tex] also alters intensive parameter [tex]P_2[/tex]
[tex]dP_2^f=\frac{\partial P_2}{\partial X_1}dX_1[/tex]
This is how the book explains it, then it makes a reasoning based on the responses. The thing is I don't know how to relate this with the specific problem I'm dealing with, I don't know how to use the fluctuation on the entropy, and I don't know which kind of responses that will produce.
Would you help me?
Thanks in advance. Bye there!