What is the name of the equation Lars Onsager is famous for?
Onsager reciprocal relations
Schrödinger Equation
Maxwell's Equations
Navier-Stokes Equation
Answer
Onsager reciprocal relations are a set of equations named after the Norwegian chemist Lars Onsager. They describe the relationships between the forces and fluxes in a system that is not in equilibrium. The equations state that the force acting on a particle in a system is proportional to the negative of the gradient of the flux of that particle.
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