THERMOKINETICS OF THE EQUILIBRIUM STATE

Abstract

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part the fundamental properties, balances, state spaces, relationships are recapitulated in a revised symmetrical and demonstrative form. The origins of the non-ideality are explained. It is known that a material system in thermodynamic equilibrium may be regarded as a ``living´´ body nest of internal motions, processes, transformations (similar to the circulation of blood in the body of a living creature). In the second part the new theory `Thermokinetics´ is applied to the dynamics of equilibrium systems. The basic processes are the ``absolute rates´´ of exponential (and not linear) force law form. It is demonstrated that all types of physicochemical process rate relations can be derived from a central general rate equation. The three fundamental state spaces, the two main cross symmetries (one of them introduced by the author) and the general time reverse symmetry relations are discussed. It is shown that the general property of nature, the irreversibility is found to be a basic property of equilibrium systems.