AP Chemistry

Ch 12

Chemical Kinetics

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Objectives: Chapter 12 Rates of Reaction

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion the student should be able to:

• define the reaction rate and to show how rates can be measured from experimental data
• determine rate laws from experimental data
• explain what is meant by 1st and 2nd order reactions
• use the integrated rate law equation for 1st and 2nd order reactions.
• define half life.
• calculate the half life given the rate constant
• determine the molecularity of a reaction from a given energy profile.
• determine the rate law from a reaction mechanism
• discuss the temperature dependence of reactions rates
• define and calculate activation energy
• explain how a catalyst speeds up a reaction

discuss heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis