Module 5 Flashcards
What is the overall order of a reaction?
Sum of orders with respect to each reactant
What can be used to monitor concentration in a reaction?
Colorimeter, mass loss, gas collection (syringe)
What does a zero order concentration time graph look like?
Straight line graph with negative gradient
What does a first order concentration time graph look like?
Quadratic line with negative gradient.
How can you calculate the rate constant (k)?
Using the rate equation or ln(2)/half life
What does a zero order rate concentration graph look like?
Horizontal line because the rate stays constant
What does a first order rate concentration graph look like?
Linear straight line graph going upwards.
What does a second order rate concentration graph look like?
Curved line upwards (quadratic)
How do you calculate initial rate?
1/T T= time taken to reach end point
What is the rate determining step?
The slowest step in a multi step reaction sequence.
What do we know about the rate determining step?
All of the species in the rate determining step are in the rate equation. Also the power of the species in the rate equation shows the balancing numbers.
What effect does increasing temperature have on the rate constant?
The rate constant increases along with the rate of reaction
What is the Arrhenius equation?
ln(k) = ln(A) -Ea/RT
What is the difference between a homogeneous equilibrium and a heterogeneous one?
Homogeneous has all species in the same state but heterogeneous have species in different states.
What does an equilibrium constant of 1 represent?
Equilibrium is halfway between the reactants and products
What does a high equilibrium constant represent?
An equilibrium well in favour of the products
What does a low equilibrium constant represent?
An equilibrium in favour of the reactants.
What factors affect the equilibrium constants?
Only temperature. Pressure and concentration cause shifts to return K to it’s value.
What is the effect of changing temperature on an exothermic reactions equilibrium constants?
When increasing temperature the value of K decreases. When decreasing the temperature the value of K increases.
What is the effect of changing the temperature on the equilibrium constant of an endothermic reaction?
When increasing temperature the constant increases and vice versa.
Explain the effect of temperature on Equilibrium constants.
By increasing the temperature there is more energy to be used up and so the endothermic enthalpy change reaction increases. This increases the concentration of one of the denominators and products causing the constant to change.
How do you explain the equilibrium shifts in an endothermic reaction?
When temperature increases the equilibrium constant also increases. This means to return the ratio of reactants to products to the new constant. To do this the concentration/pressure of the products(numerator) must increase and reactants(denominator) must decrease.
What effect does concentration and pressure have on the equilibrium constant?
They do not affect it as it stays a constant. Instead when there are changes in concentration or pressure the equilibrium shifts to return the ratio to that of the equilibrium constant.
What is a Bronsted Lowry acid?
A proton donor
What is a Bronsted Lowry base?
A proton acceptor
What is a conjugate acid base pair?
A conjugate acid base pair contains two species that can be inter converted by the transfer of a proton.
How do you convert between concentration of H+ ions and pH?
pH = -log[H+]
What does pKa tell you about the strength of an acid?
The lower the value the higher the strength of the acid.
What are the approximations when calculating the pH of a weak acid?
Concentration of H+ is the same as the concentration of A- dissociated at equilibrium
The concentration HA is the same at equilibrium as it was at the start.
How do you find the pH of a weak acid?
Root(Ka x [HA]) = [H+]
What is Kw?
Kw is the ionisation of water and at 25 degrees Celsius it is 1 x 10^-14.
Kw = [H+][OH-]
How do you calculate the pH of a strong base?
Find the [OH-] and use the ionisation of water to find [H+]
What is a buffer solution?
A buffer solution acts to minimise changes in pH when small amounts of acid or alkali are added.
What makes up a buffer solution?
A weak acid to remove alkali and it’s conjugate base to remove acid.