Your task related to this topic is to work out what theanalogous“linear transport relation”should be for describingchemistry in the Onsager picture. You need to identify the“force,”the “flux,”and the “transport coefficient.”No need to worryabout how chemistry would interact with other forces and/or fluxes,just an expression describing a chemical reaction itself as a“dissipative channel”that would represent a diagonal term in thematrix of Onsager transport relations (the off-diagonal terms woulddescribecoupling between different forces and fluxeswhile thediagonal terms are all the traditional equations that came beforeOnsager). Correct answers will refer to single chemical reactions,bonus points if you can write the expression fora chemical reactionnetwork with a generic number of reactions taking place inside it.There is one point that I need to notebefore you get started withthis problem, however. The problem is almost as simple as justlooking at the three equations relating flux and force, figuringout which state variables would be used for chemistry (hope that’sobvious but I gave the answer in the notes above if not) and thendeciding whether you want to use a conductance or resistancecoefficient and just “writing it down.”There is one complicationyou will need to puzzle out, however, which is probably also thereason that there isn’t a law of this sort already defined forchemical reactions. I’ll give you a hint: it has to do withthemeaning of the statement chemistry teachers say“don’t confusethermodynamics with kinetics,”which I told you really meant “don’tconfuse a barrier height with a well depth,”but we could also say“don’t confuse equilibrium thermodynamics with kinetics.”OK, that’sthe only complication that makes the answer to the question atalldifferent than the other three equations and once you get it thenyou should be able to just write downthe answer.