Yusf Posts: 197, Reputation: 3 Junior Member #1 Oct 17, 2016, 02:38 AM
Don't know how to use this formula for entropy of mixing.
Please take a look at the question I have attached here. For this, I found a wiki article for this formula that I have also attached here. However I found it complicated and didn't understand a word in the section I have drawn a rectangle over and underlined in light grey .
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 ebaines Posts: 12,132, Reputation: 1307 Expert #2 Oct 17, 2016, 07:15 AM
Where are you having difficulty? The mole fraction of He is 2/5, and the mole fraction of O2 is 3/5, so the equation becomes:

$\Delta S_{mix} = -5R(\frac 2 5 \ \ln(\frac 2 5) + \frac 3 5 \ \ln(\frac 3 5 ))$
 Yusf Posts: 197, Reputation: 3 Junior Member #3 Oct 17, 2016, 10:17 AM
He he he... I guess I got confused by the complex notations in wiki. Thanks for making it clear.

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