Name: Eddie Deleon Date: 2/2/14

Guided Reading Questionnaire: Chapter 14: Sections 14.1-14.4, 14,6

Please fill this out as or after you have read Chapter 14 and bring it on the day of the reading quiz. I will read these while you take your reading quizzes and use your responses as a basis for what we cover in class. This is also a good place to tell me if a section in the book is unclear to you. 1. What topic or topics in Chapter 14 is least clear at this point in your study? Least clear or hardest topic in Chapter 14 is definitely Section 14.4 because of all the different reaction orders and the different equation used with each order is confusing

2. What is the difference between an average rate and an instantaneous rate? Average rate can be expressed either as the rate of disappearance of reactant A or as the rate of appearance of product B. The formula would be the change in concentration of A over the change in time, or the change in concentration B over the change in time. Instantaneous rate of a reaction is the rate at a particular instant during the reaction. The instantaneous rate is determined from the slope of the curve at a particular point in time.

3. What is a rate law? What terms must be in a rate law? The quantitative relation ship between rate and concentration is expressed by a rate law which is usually expressed as Rate = k[reactant1]m[reactant2]n. The terms that must be in a rate law are the rate constant which is the constant k, the exponents m, and n are called the reaction orders for the reactants. The last term is the sum of the reaction orders, which gives the overall reaction order.

4. What are the differences between a reaction with a first order rate law and a reaction with a second order rate law? In a first order reaction the rate is proportional to the concentration of a single reactant raised to the first power: Rate = k[A]. The first order rate law when plotted on a graph ln [A]t versus time has a straight line of slope k. On the other hand the second order rate law is the one which the reactant concentration is raised to the second power or on the concentrations of two reactants each raised to the first power, and the formula is equal too: Rate = k[A]^2. Second order when plotted on a graph is 1/[A]t. One way to distinguish between first order and second

order is to draw both graphs and if the ln[A]t plot is linear its first order, if the 1/[A]t is linear, then it is second order.

5. What is activation energy? The minimum energy required to initiate a chemical reaction is called the activation energy, Ea, and its value varies from reaction to reaction.

6. Write the Arrhenius equation and explain the terms. Arrhenius equation is k = Ae^Ea/RT. The term k is the rate constant, Ea is the activation energy, R is the gas constant, and T is the absolute temperature. The A, is the frequency factor which is constant, or nearly so, as temperature is varied.

7. Download the Review of Logarithms from D2L and practice the exercises on that sheet using your calculator. Check