Abstract
The kinetics of Chapter 6 dealt exclusively with systems which conserved mass. For such conservative systems, a transition always leads to a new state within the system. The sum of elements in any column of the rate constant matrix is always zero and the system must have a zero (equilibrium) eigenvalue. This chapter considers an alternate kinetic situation in which the state populations are generated by some input process.
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Starzak, M.E. (1989). Driven Systems and Fluctuations. In: Mathematical Methods in Chemistry and Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2082-9_9
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