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CASE STUDY; The body also uses ions to control fluid levels and blood pressure. The most-used ions in the human body are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and chloride. Ions are also created whenever you electrostatically charge an object, such as when you rub a balloon on your hair. For this reason, your clothes dryer machine can be thought of as an ion maker. As clothes rub together in the machine, electrons get knocked from one atom to another. The result is the all-too familiar static cling. Electricity and strong electric fields perform a good job of creating ions (think lightning).
Questions
1. What is the kind of criteria applied when dealing with the Gibbs basic rule of phase transformation.
2. In the calusius inequality,what are the order of events for a spontaneous process.
3. The quantum of energy in an elastic wave is called? Explain.
4. Explain on the stability of grapghite as far as Stable and metastable equilibrium states is concerned.
5. Render this statement misleading; When the system is at local equilibrium, its Gibbs free energy (G) function has reached its minimum value.
6. What is the intensive property as far as thermodynamic functions are concerned?
7. What is the ratio analysis of G2-G1<0.
8. Justify; Solid phases are most stable at low temperatures.
9. How is the value 0 obtained from the triple point of water according to the Gibbs phase rule.
10. Relate the concept of Gibbs free energy to the stability of a system for transformations.