Affinity and Nonequilibrium Law of Mass Action: Potential Energy Surface and Chemical Equilibrium - Lecture 19

Explore advanced thermodynamics concepts in this comprehensive lecture from MIT's Spring 2024 course, focusing on chemical equilibrium and reaction dynamics. Delve into potential energy surfaces, transitional states, and activated complexes while mastering the nonequilibrium law of mass action for both ideal and nonideal mixtures. Learn about reaction affinities, their relationship to chemical equilibrium, and examine detailed topics including enthalpy formation, bond energies, collision theory, and hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms. Through Professor Gian Paolo Beretta's instruction, gain deep insights into the Hatsopoulos-Keenan Statement of the Second Law, temperature dependence of equilibrium constants, and the application of Lagrange multipliers in chemical equilibrium calculations. The lecture provides extensive coverage of fundamental thermodynamic principles and their practical applications in chemical systems, with detailed timestamps available for focused study of specific topics.