If I had a some covalent molecules with a total intermolecular bond strength of 100J and total covalent bond strength of 100J and when I supply 100J of heat into those molecules, how are the bonds going to break? Will both bonds break simultaneously or will one bond break in preference to the other? I don't think its possible to break both with just 100J of heat because in those molecules I'd have -200J of potential energy and by putting 100J into that system, it would still have 100J worth of bond energy. So I think they'd be a preference of which bond gets broken or perhaps the 100J would spread themselves equally between the 2 bonds?
if I had a bunch of covalent molecules with a total intermolecular bond strength of 100J and a total covalent bond strength of only 50J and I were to supply 50J of heat, so assuming that heat prefers to break covalent bonds, all that heat would be used to destroy that bond. And as a result of that the larger covalent molecule would be broken into smaller particles with different intermolecular bond energies. But still the total bond energies must add up to 100J?
Lastly, I thought of these factors when I came across the rotational kinetic energy and translational energy of monatomic and polyatomic elements/molecules. For polyatomic molecules by heating it, it equates to increasing both rotational and translational kinetic energy. So this shows us that heat chooses to increase various parties' kinetic energy so I was wondering about how this would correlate to how heat affects the various bonds.
Thanks so much for the help :smile:
if I had a bunch of covalent molecules with a total intermolecular bond strength of 100J and a total covalent bond strength of only 50J and I were to supply 50J of heat, so assuming that heat prefers to break covalent bonds, all that heat would be used to destroy that bond. And as a result of that the larger covalent molecule would be broken into smaller particles with different intermolecular bond energies. But still the total bond energies must add up to 100J?
Lastly, I thought of these factors when I came across the rotational kinetic energy and translational energy of monatomic and polyatomic elements/molecules. For polyatomic molecules by heating it, it equates to increasing both rotational and translational kinetic energy. So this shows us that heat chooses to increase various parties' kinetic energy so I was wondering about how this would correlate to how heat affects the various bonds.
Thanks so much for the help :smile: