On the analysis of chemical relaxation amplitudes.
The calculation of chemical relaxation amplitudes for a reaction mechanism involving an arbitrary number of thermodynamically independent steps is discussed. A formalism is developed which considerably reduces the computational labor required to derive expressions relating experimental amplitudes to thermodynamic functions and specific signal changes of elementary steps. The treatment includes the case of strong kinetic coupling between all reactions. The results are of particular interest in regard to the numerical fitting of amplitude data to an assumed mechanism.
D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics