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Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Remember, the two constants going this way and this way are different times the concentration of z to the c coefficient or exponent times the concentration of w to the d power.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now this guy is equal to this guy because we're a dynamic equilibrium.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And the only reason we are able to write the rate laws like this using the coefficients is because this is an elementary reaction.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
So now let's bring all the constant to one side and everything else the concentrations to this side.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
So we get the following.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
K one divided by k minus one equals this guy divided by this guy.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now notice that these two guys are constants.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
They're the same or they don't change at the same temperature.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that means we can represent this guy as another constant, namely K. Now this K is known as the equilibrium constant.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And the relationship between our K, the equilibrium constant.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And the chemical equation above is known as the law of mass action.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
So what's the meaning of K?
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Well, K is simply the ratio of the concentration of products and the concentration of reactants at equilibrium when the Navy equilibrium has been established.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And what K does is it tells us how far the reaction proceeded at equilibrium.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
In other words, we can have three situations.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
K can either be greater than one and if K is greater than one, that means at equilibrium we have more products than reactants.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that means our reaction is a product favored, it's spontaneous going this way.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now, if K equals one, that means at equilibrium our concentration of products is the same as the concentration of reactants.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now, if K is less than one, that means this denominator is larger than our enumerator.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that means we have more concentration of reactants of these guys at equilibrium than of our products than these guys.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that means our reaction is not product favorite, it's not spontaneous, in fact it's reactant favorite.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
This reaction is spontaneous, but this reaction isn't if our K is less than one.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's the meaning of K. Now, a few more important things that I want to mention about equilibrium constants.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now an equilibrium constant is unitless.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's because we're dividing concentration by concentration.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
So our units at the end will cancel out.
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Now, our equilibrium constant depends strictly on temperature.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's because our constant is actually a rate constant divided by a rate constant.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
So it's the ratio of the rate constant going this way to the rate constant going in the reverse direction.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And because these guys are dependent only on temperature, these guys also depend upon temperature.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
It does not depend on the concentration.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now note there is a big difference between equilibrium constant and chemical equilibrium.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Although the two things are related, they're two different separate ideas.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Once again, equilibrium constant is a ratio of products to reactants, and it depends on temperature.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
While chemical equilibrium refers to a condition, a system.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And if we add, for example, more reactants to our system now our chemical equilibrium is shifted to the right, more reactants will be produced.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's because of Washacliere's principle.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
We'll discuss that in a bit.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
But remember to have this distinction between equilibrium constant and chemical equilibrium.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
There are different things.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Last thing I want to mention is about this expression, this chemical equilibrium expression.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now, notice we included every single reactant product.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's because we assume that X-Y-Z and W were either in the aqueous state or the gas state.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Now only aqueous or gas molecules are included or expressed in our final expression.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
Solid molecules and liquid molecules are not included in our expression.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And that's because their density stays the same throughout our experiment.
Chemical Equilibrium and Equilibirium Constant .txt
And so they really have no effect on our equilibrium constant or chemical equilibrium.
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Now, any given time during the rest of the potential, our concentration on the outside is lasted on the inside.
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So let's say our outside is 0.003 molar, and on the inside is 0.135 molar.
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So how would we find the cell voltage due to the potassium ions?
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Will we use the Nurse equation?
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What this equation says is our cell voltage at any given concentration is equal to our standard cell voltage.
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But this guy is zero.
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We just said that the cell voltage of this reaction and this reaction are equal but opposite.
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So when you add them, this guy goes to zero.
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That means our cell voltage is just simply this whole guy.
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Where gas constant T is our temperature, n is the Mozzo electrons, epic Faradays constant.
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And Q is our expression.
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Now, let's look at Q first.
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What is Q?
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Well, Q is the concentration of products divided by the concentration of reactants, right?
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And our products is this guy, it's 0.3 molar, our 0.3 molar.
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Sorry.
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And this guy is zero point 13 five molar.
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So our Q is 0.3 over zero point 13 five.
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The M cancel out.
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Now, our T is our temperature of our body.
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It's not 25 degrees Celsius, it's 37 degrees Celsius.
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So we have 37 to 273, and we get 310.
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So it's 310 right here.
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This is our gas constant.
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It's just a constant 8.3, 114.
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Our fahrenheit is constant.
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So what is N is the moles of electrons produced per potassium or a mole of potassium.
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So notice that our mole here is one.
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It's a ratio of one to one.
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That means we have 1 mol of electron.
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So number one goes for N. We plug these guys into the calculator.
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Notice that natural log of a number smaller than one gives you a negative number.
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So the negative is becoming positive.
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And this is our final cell voltage, zero point 102 volts.
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So then we do the same exact thing for calcium, for sodium, and for chloride.
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Add all the guys up and we should get our final resting electrical potential to sell.
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Now, I want to talk more about the meaning of this number.
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What is meant by this number?
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Remember, we have the electrochemical gradient of our cell.
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And this is the gradient due to the concentration of ions and due to charge.
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So it's the chemical gradient and electrical gradient or voltage gradient.
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And these guys are opposite of each other.
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In other words, notice that our potassium ion, there is a larger concentration on the inside than outside.
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And that means these guys will tend to move down their chemical gradients, right?
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Because there are more of these guys on the outside.
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So equilibrium will want to establish and these guys will want to move to the outside down their chemical gradient.
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Now, electrical gradient is the opposite of that.
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Because electrons travel this way, electrons will want to travel to the place where there is more positive charge.
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That means it's opposite.
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Now, what this number means is that when our electrical gradient and our chemical gradient equal to this number, when they're both this number, that means equilibrium will be established between the potassium ions and the same number of potassium ions will be going in as they will be coming out, right?
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So the rates will equal, and that's what this number means.
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So actually, our electrical potential should be negative of this because they're opposite of each other.
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They have the same magnitude but different signs.