Unit 1

On completion of the unit you should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate awareness that reactions occur at differing rates.
  2. Experimentally determine rate of a reaction.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of collision theory.
  4. Apply collision theory to explain how reaction rates can be changed.
  5. Analyze the reaction mechanism for a reacting system.
  6. Represent graphically the energy changes associated with catalyzed and uncatalyzed reactions.

Unit 1 Reaction Kinetics
Unit 1 Problems
Animations
  Activation Energy
  Orientation of Collision

REACTION KINETICS
1.1 Reaction Kinetics
1.2 Method of Measuring Reaction Rates
1.3 Factors Affecting Reaction Rates
1.4 Experimental Measurement of Reaction Rates         

 Reaction Rate Law
Reading: Hebden – page 1 – 11
1.5 Reaction Rates and Collision Theory

Collision Theory

 
1.6 Enthalpy Changes and Chemical Reactions
1.7 Kinetic Energy Distributions
1.8 Activation Energies

Arrhenius equation
Reading: Hebden – page 12 – 25
1.9 Reaction Mechanism
1.10 Energy Diagrams of a Reaction Mechanism
1.11 The Effect of a Catalyst on the Activation Energies
1.12 The Effect of a Catalyst on the Reaction Meachanism
Reading: Hebden – page 26 – 36