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|description='''Velocity''', '''''v''''' [mยทs<sup>-1</sup>], is the [[speed]] in a defined spatial direction, and as such velocity is a [[vector]]. Velocity is the [[advancement]] in distance per unit time, | |description='''Velocity''', '''''v''''' [mยทs<sup>-1</sup>], is the [[speed]] in a defined spatial direction, and as such velocity is a [[vector]]. Velocity is the [[advancement]] in distance per unit time, | ||
ย '''''v''''' โก d'''''z''''' โ d''t''<sup>-1</sup> [mยทs<sup>-1</sup>] | ย '''''v''''' โก d'''''z''''' โ d''t''<sup>-1</sup> [mยทs<sup>-1</sup>] |
Latest revision as of 18:53, 28 December 2018
Description
Velocity, v [mยทs-1], is the speed in a defined spatial direction, and as such velocity is a vector. Velocity is the advancement in distance per unit time,
v โก dz โ dt-1 [mยทs-1]
Abbreviation: v [mยทs-1]
Reference: Gnaiger 2018 MiPschool Tromso A2
Communicated by Gnaiger E 2018-10-20
Velocity in diffusion: from particle format to chemical format
- When a force acts on a particle X in direction z, it causes an acceleration, thus increasing the velocity of the particle up to a stationary state, when the effect of the force is counteracted by the frictional resistance. At this stationary state, the potential for performing work (erg; exergy) is not any longer conserved in kinetic exergy (acceleration), but is dissipated such that the exergy driving the process is consumed only to maintain the particle at constant velocity. Then the motive particle has an average velocity v in the z direction, relative to any reference velocity, irrespective of its speed following the pattern of Brownian motion. Since v is a vector with information on magnitude and spatial direction, it is written in bold face,
v โก dz โ dt-1 [mยทs-1]
- Similarly, the motive force, dmFNX (units: newton per particle X [Nโx-1]), is a vector or gradient, taken here as being oriented in the z direction only, interacting with the motive particle X. The velocity at stationary state is proportional to the motive force, with the mobility, uNX, as the proportionality constant (in the particle or molecular format, N),
v = -uNX โ dmFNX [m/s]
- For a number of uncharged motive particles or molecules, NX, diffusing at velocity v, the corresponding flow of diffusion, IdNX, across a plane perpendicular to the gradient in direction z is,
IdNX = NX โ v [xโmโs-1]
- Subscripts m and d indicate the partial process of vectoral motion or specifically diffusion. Subscript N indicates the particle format, expressing X as a dimensionless number (unit [x]). In contrast, nX = NXโNA-1 is the amount of X in motion expressed in the unit mole [mol] (NA is the Avogadro constant). Then flow in the molar format, nA, is amount times velocity, replacing particle number N [x] by amount of substance n,
IdnX = nX โ v [molโmโs-1]
- To simplify symbols, we may drop the subscript n, IdX โก IdnX, which indicates a molar format, expressing X as amount [mol], compared to the particle format.
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