Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution when temperature increases

Question 1

What does the area under the curve represent?

Answer 1

The total number of molecules in the mixture

Question 2

What does the shaded area under the curve represent?

Answer 2

The number of molecules with sufficient energy to react if they collide

Question 3

At a higher temperature, what happens to the kinetic energy of the molecules?

Answer 3

It increases

Question 4

Due to a higher temperature, what happens to the Boltzmann distribution?

Answer 4

Flattens and shifts to the right

Question 5

Due to a higher temperature, what happens to the shaded area under the curve?

Answer 5

It’s greater

Question 6

What does this result in?

Answer 6

Higher proportion of molecules have sufficient energy to undergo a successful reaction when they collide
Increase in rate of reaction