Week 16 Reading Response – Due Monday, Feb. 8th at 8 pm. Week 16 Chemistry Last Name, First Name * Entropy is sometimes a tricky concept to grasp and there are many different ways to attempt to explain it. In your own words, explain entropy to someone with a "non-science" background. Consider the equation on the bottom of page 761. Why is the change in entropy of the surroundings inversely proportional to temperature? If you calculate the standard free energy of formation for a reaction using the table of values in Appendix 4 and get a negative number, is it correct to say the reaction is always spontaneous? Why or why not? 5. What did you find particularly interesting or surprising from the chemistry reading assignment? 6. What chemistry topics are you still confused about from previous weeks? 7. What would you like us to spend class time on from the chemistry reading assignment? Δ
