Kinetics

• Activation energy

  The energy needed for a successful reaction to occur due to a successful collision
• Rate of reaction

  Factors that affect rate of reaction are

  Temperature

  Concentration/pressure

  Catalyst

  Surface area
• A catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of reaction by lowering the activation energy and providing an alternative pathway
• Maxwell-boltzmann

  • The area under curve is the sum of all energies and total number of particles
  • No particles have 0 energy .
  • Number of particles/molecules with given energy on the y axis while energy is on the X axis.
• Rate of reaction is the change of concentration over time divided by the change in time
• Rate of reaction formula pt2

  1/t can be used to calculate rate of reaction when the reaction is first order so rate of reaction is directly proportional to concentration of the reactant