Consider the analogy of the jiggling box containing coins that was described. The reaction, the flipping of coins that either face heads up (H) or tails up (T), is described by the equation H ↔ T, where the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction.

A. What are ΔG and ΔG° in this analogy?

B. What corresponds to the temperature at which the reaction proceeds? What corresponds to the activation energy of the reaction? Assume you have an “enzyme,” called jigglase, which catalyzes this reaction. What would the effect of jigglase be and what, mechanically, might jigglase do in this analogy?