Friday, March 22, 2019

equilibrium - How can you explain the energy change in this phenomenon?


Tagged is the diagram of the apparatus used in this thought experiment. Pure water is taken in one side of the beaker and a solution of common salt in water in the other. After a very long time, the pure water should get transferred to the NaCl solution side because according to Raoult's law, the NaCl solution should have lesser vapor pressure than pure water, thus causing the water-vapour equilibrium in the pure water side to move forward, resulting in the condensation of the vapour in the other side (the solution side) . But how has the potential energy (=mgh) of the pure water increased during the process?


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