U1.1: Measuring Energy Changes Flashcards
Define energy
the ability to do work or cause a change
How can energy be transferred
- Conduction: Direct Contact
- Convection: Movement of fluids (air, water)
- Radiation: Emission of Electromagnetic waves
What is chemical change?
Total energy before = Total energy after as energy is never created nor destroyed
What is physical change
Change in physical states
What is the system
The chemical reaction itself
What is the surrounding
Everything not the system itself
Properties of exothermic reactions (5)
- More heat is released to surroundings than absorbed by the system
- Surrounding gets hotter
- Products are more stable than reactants
- delta H is negative
- Bonds form as removing heat brings atoms closer
- Bonds are more stable
- Reactant enthalpy > Product enthalpy
Properties of endothermic reactions (5)
- More heat is absorbed from surroundings than released by the system
- Surroundings get cooler
- Products are less stable than reactants
- delta H is positive
- Bonds break as adding heat separates atoms
- Bonds are less stable
- Product enthalpy > Reactant enthalpy
What are axis labelled in energy profile diagrams
- X axis: time (s)
- Y axis: Potential Energy (kJ)
How does the energy profile for exothermic reactions look?
- Reactants higher than products
- EA is the distance from the reactant base to the peak
- delta H is negative and it is the arrow below the EA (longer) from the base of Products
How does the energy profile for endothermic reactions look?
- Products higher than reactants
- EA is the distance from the reactant base to the top of the peak (longer)
- delta H is positive and it is the arrow from the reactant base to the base of the products (shorter)
Define heat
A measure of total kinetic energy of particles in a substance
Define temperature
A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance
Define enthalpy
Amount of heat energy contained in a substance
State the 2 formulas used in the calculation of the enthalpy change of a reaction (and their units)
- Q=mc(delta t): Q is energy (J), m is mass (g), c is SHC (J/G*C), t can be *C or K
- Delta H = - (Q/n): Delta H is change in enthalpy (kJ mol^-1), Q is energy (J), n is moles (mol)