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The search for the reason that neither of these things ever happens led to profound philosophical insights and generated useful quantitative statements about the energetics of chemical reactions and the amount of work that can be done by them. Since living things are in many respects chemical machines, we must examine these matters in some detail. 24 cal) or the kilojoule (1 kJ = 1000 J). The Second Law: The Total Entropy Always Increases From daily experience with weights falling and warm bodies growing cold, one might expect spontaneous processes to proceed in the direction that lowers the internal energy—that is, the direction in which ∆U is negative.
The occurrence of an endergonic process in nature thus implies that it is coupled to a second, exergonic process. Much of cellular and molecular bioenergetics is concerned with the mechanisms by which energy coupling is effected. The Standard Free-Energy Change, DG0, Is the Change in Free Energy When the Concentration of Reactants and Products Is 1 M Changes in free energy can be measured experimentally by calorimetric methods. They have been tabulated in two forms: as the free energy of formation of a compound from its elements, and as ∆G for a particular reaction.
For our purposes, what matters is the sign of the entropy change, ∆S: A process can take place spontaneously when ∆S for the system and its surroundings is positive; a process for which ∆S is negative cannot take place spontaneously, but the opposite process can; and for a system at equilibrium, the entropy of the system plus its surroundings is maximal and ∆S is zero. 5 “Equilibrium” is another of those familiar words that is easier to use than to define. Its everyday meaning implies that the forces acting on a system are equally balanced, such that there is no net tendency to change; this is the sense in which the term “equilibrium” will be used here.