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Unlike osmotic potential, water potential is a function of temperature and pressure as well as solute concentration. Wen two solutions are separated by a membrane permeable to water but not solute, water will move from higher water potential to lower water potential. As the hydrostatic pressure of a solution increases, the water potential:
a) decreases because the water molecules have less space and so become more ordered.
b) remains constant because water has no place to move
c) remains constant, because temperature increases
d) increases because the water molecules have more free energy
WHY and how do the water molecules have more free energy???????? what? This question and the answer choices are not making any sense to me.
Please help
a) decreases because the water molecules have less space and so become more ordered.
b) remains constant because water has no place to move
c) remains constant, because temperature increases
d) increases because the water molecules have more free energy
WHY and how do the water molecules have more free energy???????? what? This question and the answer choices are not making any sense to me.
Please help
