PPT Slide
- Thermodynamics is concerned with the question: can a reaction occur?
- First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy is conserved.
- Any process that occurs without outside intervention is spontaneous.
- When two eggs are dropped they spontaneously break.
- The reverse reaction (two eggs leaping into your hand with their shells back intact) is not spontaneous.
- We can conclude that a spontaneous process has a direction.