A student put together the experimental setup shown below. The selectively permeable membrane is permeable to water, but not the
solute shown. Over time, what will happen in this system?
No change will take place.
Water will move from left to right.
Water will move from right to left.
Solute will move from right to left.
The correct answer to this question is Water will move from left to right.
Water tends to move over to the side where there is less water.
For example,
if there's less water on the RIGHT side,
then the water will tend to move from left, to RIGHT. It <span>shows more solute molecules on the right, so water will move to this side by osmosis. I think it is to do with entropy and the tendency for systems to move to equilibrium if there is an increase in entropy</span>
