Talk:Michaelis-Menten kinetics

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) its a bit jargonistic 220.239.110.248 03:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Phase space

I changed the explanation of the quasi-steady-state approximation from:

The current derivation, based on the quasi steady state approximation (which asserts that the concentrations of the intermediate complexes initially change so as to approach the set in phase space where their rate of change is zero)

to

The current derivation, based on the quasi steady state approximation (that the concentrations of the intermediate complexes remain constant)

The derivation is based on the assumption that the concentrations do not change, no more, no less. The discussion about the representation in phase space might indeed be a more accurate and complete description of the quasi-steady-state approximation, but at that point in the article it's just confusing to non-specialists. --Slashme (talk) 13:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)