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UCI Chem 131C Thermodynamics and Chemical Dynamics (Spring 2012) Lec 12. Thermodynamics and Chemical Dynamics -- Entropy and The Second Law -- Instructor: Reginald Penner, Ph.D. Description: In Chemistry 131C, students will study how to calculate macroscopic chemical properties of systems. This course will build on the microscopic understanding (Chemical Physics) to reinforce and expand your understanding of the basic thermo-chemistry concepts from General Chemistry (Physical Chemistry.) We then go on to study how chemical reaction rates are measured and calculated from molecular properties. Topics covered include: Energy, entropy, and the thermodynamic potentials; Chemical equilibrium; and Chemical kinetics. Index of Topics 0:04:00 Energy Is Conserved for an Isolated System... 0:06:51 Entropy 0:15:53 Carnot Cycle 0:24:18 Efficiency 0:27:52 Data on an Adiabat 0:33:50 Temperature-Entropy Diagram 0:34:48 S is a State Function
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Okay, how are you guys doing? How'd the exam go? How many people thought the exam was too easy?
How many people thought the exam was too hard? Hmm, so we're going to post the scores later on today.
You don't want me to post the scores? Steven and Gee and Matt, Mark, Mack graded all of these exams by themselves. So I'm very grateful to them for doing that.
And I don't honestly have any idea how you did right now. So I'll find out later today just like you. But don't worry, we'll deal with the outcome, no matter what it is. I don't think it'll be that bad. Okay, unfortunately I did make one major mistake which was, you know, I'm supposed to put one
of those exam return forms on the front of the exam and I always forget to do that for some reason on the first exam of the quarter. Quarter after quarter. So we're going to have to return these exams to you in discussion this week. And so in your discussion section your TA is going to return your exam to you.
Okay, you can look at it. I'll post the key later on today as well. So you can look at the key, compare that with how your exam was graded, talk to me. Okay? We do have a quiz Friday, quiz 4, and it's going to be about Chapter 15 which is all about the thermodynamic definition of entropy.
We'll be talking about that today and Wednesday. Okay, and I'll tell you more about what's going to be on the quiz on Wednesday. Now, where are we? Well, we're right here, right? We've been going at this for four weeks now.
We had your midterm on Friday. We're coming to the end of this topic of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. We're starting Chapter 15 today and we're going to just sort of zoom through 16 and 17. We're going to, at like 20,000 feet we're going
to look at these chapters. Alright? We don't have time to devote all the time that we ought to to these two chapters because we have to talk about kinetics and reaction dynamics and so we're going to sort of skim these two chapters, 16 and 17.
Right? So believe it or not, we are near the end of where we're going to be talking about this topic right here and I'm personally happy about that because I find this topic difficult myself. If you think it's difficult, I think it's difficult too. Okay? So we're going to transition
to chemical kinetics probably next week. Okay? Probably maybe some place in the middle of next week. And we are pretty much on track which is unusual for us. Right? By now we've usually trashed the schedule and we're behind and we're starting to throw stuff out
but we're pretty much hanging in there and pretty happy with where we are. Okay? So just so you have an idea. You're going to need to read 16 and 17. You're going to have to have some knowledge of what's in those chapters but probably not everything and I'll tell you what's important. Okay. So in Chapter 14, Chapter 14 was all
about the first law, conservation of energy. Energy is conserved for an isolated system. Change in the internal energy is equal to zero for any process. Okay? The central concept is internal energy. We're constantly talking about that in Chapter 14
and in connection with the first law. Alright? And what we learn from the first law is to understand whether a transformation is allowed. A transformation that doesn't conserve energy is not allowed in other words. Alright? And so we can tell immediately whether a particular
process is even possible or not but that doesn't tell us whether it will actually happen. It only tells us it's an allowed process. In the second law, the second law is the entropy of an isolated system increases in the course of spontaneous change. We find out whether the process that's allowed will
also happen. Alright? Not all allowed processes will happen. Alright? And we need to be able to sort allowed processes into processes that will not happen and ones that will. Alright? The central concept here is entropy, not energy and the answer to the question is a transformation spontaneous.
Will it happen? If it's allowed, will it happen? Pretty important question to be able to answer in chemistry I think you'll agree. Remember this? We talked about entropy weeks ago. Right? We talked about statistical entropy.
We put nickels in a Kinney shoe box, 100 of them. Alright? And we shook the box and then we looked inside, made sure we had one layer of nickels. Okay? And we saw this evolution in the distribution of heads and tails as we shook the box, shook the box, shook the box and we concluded
that what was changing here is not the energy because the energy of this state is just virtually identical to the energy of this state. Right? The energy doesn't really depend on whether the coins are face up or face down. Those are energetically degenerate states for the coin and yet we see the system evolve consistently
in this direction and what we concluded is that this is the direction of increasing W. Right? The system is optimizing on increasing W. It wants a configuration that maximizes W. So we concluded for any isolated assembly we can always predict the direction of spontaneous change as that in which W increases
and remember W is not energy. It's something else. So Boltzmann postulated that this parameter is the entropy. He defined it according to this equation here. This is really a postulate. Right? And this is the statistical definition of entropy.
This is the statistical definition. We're going to talk in a moment about the thermodynamic definition. Now, we can already take the statistical definition and apply it to the expansion of a gas. We're going to try and tie together statistical entropy
and thermodynamic entropy. What is the probability of finding a gas molecule in the entire volume of a closed vessel? I've got one molecule in a vessel. Right? The probability that it's in the vessel somewhere, if this vessel is air tight, that molecule can't get out,
the probability is one. Right? There's a 100% chance that the molecule's in the entire vessel. I put it in there. Right? It can't be anywhere else. Now, what's the probability that it's in half of the vessel?
Well, we know intuitively the answer's one-half. How did we get that answer? Well, if we're talking about half the vessel, V over 2, now let's say there are two molecules. The probability that both are in V prime is the product
of these two one-molecule probabilities. In other words, we can take the probability for molecule 1, multiply it by the probability for molecule 2. That's the same as the probability for molecule 1. We just multiply these together. That's the same as squaring that. Okay? And so for N molecules, this isn't going
to be squared anymore. It's going to be this ratio to the Nth power, big N. Okay? So we're just using the statistical definition of entropy to arrive at this conclusion.
This is going to tell us something about volumes. Let's see if we can apply it. Right? Here's an experiment. I've got gas A in this half of this vessel and gas B in this half of this vessel. A and B are located in the two halves of a container.
Now, I take away the barrier between the two halves. What's going to happen? We know with 100% probability these two gases are going to mix. We don't have to wonder whether that's going to happen or not. And we also understand that that's a manifestation of the entropy of the system increasing.
Right? That's a direct manifestation of the second law. Here they've, notice how I switched from blue to red to purple and beautiful. Show this process involves increase in entropy. We know it does. Can we show that it does?
Here's the Boltzmann law, S equals K log W. The change in the entropy is the final entropy of the system minus the initial entropy of the system because entropy is a state function. So that's the entropy associated with the final volume.
That's the entropy associated with the initial volume and we can just use Boltzmann's law and plug in Boltzmann's law to this equation right here. So we've got the final state, final number of states and the initial number of states. And so this is a minus, this is a subtraction. I can just write this log as WF over WI.
Right? That's the change in entropy right there. And we have an equation that relates these number of states with this volume. We just showed that W sub N for V prime is given
by this equation right here. So we can just substitute this guy for that and a term just like him for that, right, VF and VI play the role of V prime. Okay? So I'm going to make V prime VF over V
in the numerator and I'm going to make V prime VI over V in the denominator. All right? And these two V's are just going to cancel for us. And so we're just going to end up with VF over VI and I can move that N out front in the logarithm.
Okay? So the change in the entropy is going to be K and the number of molecules log VF over VI and I've got a term like that for delta S for gas A and delta S for gas B
because there's two gases involved here. Right? And there's a VF and a VI for both gases. Right? There's, if I took only gas A and I allowed it to expand into a larger volume I think you'd agree it would do
that spontaneously. Okay? So if there was no gas B we could arrive at the same conclusion. There just would be no second term here. This would be 1 NK log 2. Right? Both of those are going to be spontaneous processes. A expanding into a vacuum if we take the barrier away and A
and B spontaneously mixing if we take the barrier away. This is a positive number. We just need to know N to calculate it. All right? We can calculate this delta S is but it's positive.
That means this is a spontaneous process. Now, going all the way back to Lecture 4, all right, what if instead of a change in entropy we wish to calculate the absolute entropy of a monatomic gas? We actually talked about this briefly in Lecture 4.
We derived an equation for this purpose. We started off with this equation right here, excuse me, and we did a bunch of extra steps that I'm not going to talk to you about. You can see it's Lecture 4 for the rest of this derivation and we derived this thing called the Sacher-Tetrode Equation.
All right? And the thing is this is not a delta S now. It's an absolute entropy. Usually we're calculating a change in the entropy, but here for a monatomic gas we've got an equation that tells us the absolute entropy. So it's a pretty important equation. Right? It can anchor our entropy calculation.
And so this is just the residual end of this derivation and so we can use the Sacher-Tetrode Equation to calculate the standard molar entropy of something like neon gas. This is actually right out of Lecture 4 as well. That's the thermal wavelength.
What is this? This is a mass of units of meters. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Showed that that was true. Then we can plug everything in. That mass has to be in units of kilograms. Never forget, right? The mass of the neon molecule has to be
in units of kilograms. And so that's neon has a mass of 20.18 grams per mole, but that's 20.18 times 10 to the minus 3. Kilograms per mole, okay, Avogadro's number, blah, blah, blah. So that's the mass of a single neon atom in units of kilograms.
Yes, yes, okay. And so we can calculate the thermal wavelength. It's always very, very short. We expect to get an absurdly small number like this. So never be surprised by that when you're calculating the thermal wavelength. And then we can plug everything into the equation. And S is equal to 138 joules per kelvin per mole.
Those are our units of molar entropy. Joules per kelvin per mole, okay? So this is just straight out of lecture 4. I'm only putting it in here to remind you that we can calculate the absolute molar entropy
of a monoatomic, ideal monoatomic gas. Because that's something you might need to do hypothetically on a quiz. Okay, now, this is Sadie Carnot.
He's the first French guy that we've talked about this quarter. And I could say something bad about the French, but I won't. All right, he was interested in steam engines.
He was a mechanical engineer. And he wanted to understand how to make them more efficient. All right, you know, as we go through and we look at these people who contributed to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, they all had a practical motivation for what they were doing, all right?
They weren't just interested in pure science. I mean, they were interested in pure science, but they needed to get an answer to make something happen better. Make better beer if you're joule. Make it more efficiently. Make a better steam engine if you're Carnot. All right, he wanted to know two things. Was the energy available from a heat engine
because steam engine is a type of heat engine, is that unbounded or are there some fundamental limits involved? How do I know when my steam engine is operating as efficiently as I could possibly expect it to? Or is there no limit to how efficient it could be? He was doing this stuff actually in the 1820s.
And this is before Joule had figured out the first law. Right, so conservation of energy wasn't a defined concept at this point in time. He was thinking about entropy before conservation of energy was even worked out. All right, and the second thing is can a steam engine be made
more efficient by changing the working fluid using something besides water as the working fluid in the steam engine? Right, he was thinking about that. So I told you, Carnot. He's French.
How about Maxwell? Scotland. Yes, Maxwell's a Scot. Joule, you guys know that one.
England. Gibbs. American, yes. We're in there. We're going to be saying more about him. Boltzmann. Austrian, yes. There they are. This would be a good quiz question.
Okay, so there's a statistical definition of entropy. That's the Boltzmann equation. And there's a thermodynamic definition which is this. Maybe we'll derive this equation on Wednesday. I don't know. Takes about six slides to do that.
All right, the change in the entropy is the change in the heat for reversible process divided by the temperature. We're going to talk about what happens when the process is not reversible on Wednesday. Right, but today we're always going to be talking about a reversible process. All right, the change in the entropy is the change
in the heat that flows at a defined temperature. That's what the entropy is. That's the thermodynamic definition. Okay, so what did Carnot do? He worked out how much work you can extract from a temperature gradient.
All right, a steam engine is a temperature gradient. You've got steam at maybe 150 degrees C. You've got the ambient temperature which is roughly 20 degrees C. Right, so you've got a huge temperature gradient and you're extracting work from that. You're pulling the train with that temperature gradient
for all practical purposes. Okay, and so he devised this thing called the Carnot cycle. We talk about the Carnot cycle because it's extremely important. It places an upper limit on the amount of work that we can extract from a temperature gradient. Alternatively, it tells us how much temperature,
how much heat we can pump with a given amount of work. Right, that is, that's a very practical problem that we need to be able to solve. Carnot cycle is the most efficient existing cycle capable of converting a given amount of thermal energy into work or conversely it's the largest temperature difference we can establish using a particular amount of work.
Right, it's both things. So if you've heard of a heat pump, all right, a heat pump is, its efficiency is bounded by the efficiency of a Carnot cycle. We have to be able to understand this.
Now, a heat engine extracts work from a temperature gradient. Here's a hot temperature. This would be like the steam in a steam engine. Here's a cold temperature. This would be like the ambient temperature outside the steam engine. All right, this delta T is the temperature gradient that we're talking about, TH minus TC, okay,
and some of that can be extracted as work. Right, some of that temperature gradient can be extracted as work. What the Carnot cycle tells us is how much. How much work is it possible to extract from this temperature gradient? So, here it is.
All right, here's a pressure volume trace. This is an isotherm at T1, and here's an isotherm at T2, right, in pressure volume space. All right, we're starting here at this point in the cycle.
Okay, and so this is step 1, step 2, step 3, and step 4. I haven't labeled them that way. All right, but we're starting here, so this is step 1. All right, step 1 is an isothermal compression. Step 2 is an adiabatic compression.
Step 3 is an isothermal expansion. Step 4 is an adiabatic expansion. Isothermal, obviously it's on the isotherm. Adiabatic, obviously it's not on the isotherm. All right, so that helps you remember it's adiabatic. That's an isotherm also.
Okay, so that's an isothermal, sorry, did I say expansion? No, expansion, expansion, compression, compression. Isothermal adiabatic, isothermal adiabatic.
Okay, so the first thing we have to know is what this is. Now, there's an infinite number of these, all right, but we're going to be able to derive some conclusions about them that's general and the same for all of them. All right, I think you can, in principle I could stop this here and then do an adiabatic expansion here,
then move here, then do an adiabatic compression here. I could concoct any number of these Carnot cycles. What do we know for sure? Well, step 1, Q is greater than 0. Because I'm doing an expansion,
it's an isothermal expansion, work is less than 0, that means Q has got to be greater than 0. This is an isothermal compression. All right, work is going to be greater than 0 for that.
That means Q has got to be less than 0. And I'll show you why that's true in just a second. Okay, Q of course is 0 for these two steps because they're adiabatic. These are the things that we know for sure. Okay, so how efficient is a heat engine?
Any heat engine, not just a Carnot cycle, right? The efficiency is defined as the work that's performed divided by the heat that's absorbed from the hot reservoir. All right, in a heat engine there's a hot part and a cold part, okay?
In your car the hot part is inside the cylinder. The cold part is outside the engine. Right, that's the delta T that matters in an internal combustion engine. Right, in a steam engine there's this temperature of the steam and there's the temperature outside the steam engine. All right, what we care about is the heat that's transferred
from the hot reservoir, the inside of the cylinder, the steam, this guy. Okay, so there's some numbers here and the units don't matter. It could be kilojoules.
Okay, but if we wanted to calculate the efficiency of this particular heat engine right here it's easy. All right, I'm transferring 5 units from the hot reservoir, I'm sorry, I'm extracting 5 units of work from the hot reservoir and dividing by 20. Okay, that's the total number of units that were transferred
out of the hot reservoir. All right, so that's the work right there. That 20 is the number coming out of the hot reservoir. The efficiency is 25 percent. All right, you with me?
Okay, now how efficient is a Carnot cycle? Well, it turns out that a Carnot cycle has an efficiency that's given by this equation right here where that's the cold temperature of the cold reservoir. That's the temperature of this guy and that's the temperature of the hot reservoir. That's the temperature of the hot reservoir.
All right, the efficiency depends on what these two temperatures are and it can't be higher than this. So let's see if we can prove that this is true.
Let's prove this because that's the central thing that Sadie Carnot was able to do. All right, we want to calculate the work for each of our four cycles. Okay, this is step one, two, three, and four. All right, this is isothermal expansion.
This is adiabatic expansion. This is isothermal compression. This is adiabatic compression. Everybody recognize those equations? Yes, and that's also, this is problem two on your exam.
Now, that guy is the opposite of that guy. Right, because I've looked at the limits of the integration. That's TC to TH, that's TH to TC, so that's the negative of that, so those two terms are going to cancel.
Exactly. All right, what we're left with are these two guys, okay, and to further simplify them, we have to notice that these two data points here lie on an adiabat, so that means that these temperatures
and volumes are related to one another through this equation right here where gamma is just the ratio of the constant pressure and the constant volume heat capacities. These two guys right here, these two data points are also related through an analogous equation because they're also located on an adiabat, all right,
and so this equation holds true for any two temperature volume data points on any adiabat. Okay, so using these two equations, I can, this is just a statement of the one on the left, this is a statement of the one on the right,
and now I can make substitutions. In fact, I can divide this guy by this guy and I get this very simple expression that I can use to substitute now into this equation right here. I'm substituting that into this to obtain that, all right,
the total work is just minus NR temperature difference multiplied by log V2 over V1 and the transfer of heat in the first compression is, so that's the total work for the whole cycle, okay,
and the transfer of heat in the first compression is this, that was just the first term that we wrote and since we already agreed that the efficiency of the heat engine is just that divided by that, why? It turns out if you make that substitution and you cancel terms, you get this equation right here.
Try it yourself. Okay, so a heat pump is used to maintain the temperature of a building at 18 degrees C when the outside temperature is
at minus 5, for a frictionless heat pump, how much work must be expended to obtain a joule of heat? Is a joule a lot of heat or a little heat?
Pretty big unit of heat, pretty big heat unit. Answer, here's the efficiency, all right, how much work must be expended to obtain a joule of heat, here's our Carnot, expression for the Carnot efficiency
and so solving for work, all right, work is just equal to QH times this guy, right, and so a joule, all right,
so Q is a joule of heat, all right, 1 minus these temperatures are of course converted to the Kelvin scale from those two guys
and what I calculate is 0.079 joules, pretty small number of joules, all right, but we agreed joule is a pretty big energy unit and so the work necessary to pump 1 joule of heat from minus 5 C
to 18 degrees C, I think you'll agree that's going to be thermodynamically uphill to do that because that's colder than that, all right, that's going to be 79 millijoules, 1, 2, 3, 79 millijoules, very simple, okay, what is the entropy change for each
of the four steps of the reversible Carnot cycle? Here's another question concerning the Carnot cycle, we need the thermodynamic expression for S, yes, all right, obviously if we can convert this differential
into delta then we just can pay attention to these delta, the change in entropy during step 1 and step 2 and step 3 and step 4, the sum of those is going to be equal
to the change in the entropy for the whole cycle and that's what we want to know, all right, because S is a state function, so steps 2 and 3 are adiabatic so Q is 0 for those and that means S is 0
because S is Q over T, all right, and so if Q is 0 because that's an adiabatic step, step 2 is adiabatic and step 4 is adiabatic, those two change in entropy are also going to be 0, you can tell that right away, all right, but that's not true
for steps 1 and 3, all right, steps 1 and 3 are going to be Q1 divided by TH, all right, we can make these total derivatives because this process is occurring entirely at TH, it's occurring in an isothermal way and process 3 is going to be Q2 over TC
because that process is occurring entirely on the cold adiabat, a cold isotherm and so if we know what the pressure volume Carnot cycle looks like but if we rewrite the Carnot cycle in terms
of temperature entropy it's a box, right, there's no change in temperature but there's a change in entropy for process 1, process 2 occurs with no change in entropy but a change in temperature between the hot and the cold, right, you see what I'm saying?
So the Carnot cycle represented as a temperature entropy process is a box, tends to be a helpful thing at least for me to remember, helps me remember that the entropy is not changing in process 2 or in process 4, all right, it's constant
because there's no heat flow. Okay, so steps 2 and 3 are adiabatic so Q equals 0, that means this so let me emphasize one thing,
so these two guys cancel, did I prove that? Did I leave a slide out?
I don't think I proved that, all right, that guy and that guy are equal and opposite, what's that?
Yes, but I don't think I adequately prove that that has to be the same distance as, I mean in other words that this, sorry, this has to be the same distance as this, I think I still need to prove that to you I guess
on Wednesday, now everything that we've said has so far pertained to a reversible process but real processes are not reversible, reversible processes happen infinitely slow, real processes happen at some finite rate, so we have
to address what that means for us in terms of the thermodynamics of real processes versus reversible processes, we're going to get to that on Wednesday, we're going to talk first of all about this equation right here and then we're going to talk about what happens when the process is not reversible,
okay and I think actually this is all I've got even though I've got 20 minutes left, Sean, somehow I managed to go
through these 75 slides faster than I thought I would, does anybody have questions? Yes, so steps 2 and 4 are adiabatic,
that should be Q3 sorry, okay so we'll see you on Wednesday, thank you.