Electrical and Reaction Networks

Qualitatively, the analogy between the conventional electrical network theory and the reaction network defined above is quite transparent. To make this analogy quantitative, we introduce several additional concepts  

It may be noticed that the resistance is necessarily a positive quantity. At equilibrium we have r° =r.= Fj where r° is the exchange rate of the -th step 

This electrical analogy is appropriate, since each elementary reaction in a mechanism represents a different degree of resistance to the reaction progress. In fact, it is frequently assumed that all resistance resides in a single step, termed the rate-determining step. 

From the above definitions it follows that the analogy between the electrical and reaction networks is rather exhaustive, the main difference being that the resistance is not a constant. 

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