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The document contains questions about reaction kinetics including: 1) Determining the order of reactions from rate laws and calculating half lives of first order reactions. 2) Calculating activation energies from data on how temperature affects reaction rates. 3) Calculating concentrations of reactants over time for first order reactions. 4) Explaining how reaction rates depend on reactant concentrations for different order reactions and decomposing reactions. 5) Writing differential rate equations and determining how rates change with varying reactant concentrations for reactions of different orders. 6) Calculating time for significant completion of first order reactions and determining activation energies from Arrhenius plots. 7) Calculating activation energies from rate

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The document contains questions about reaction kinetics including: 1) Determining the order of reactions from rate laws and calculating half lives of first order reactions. 2) Calculating activation energies from data on how temperature affects reaction rates. 3) Calculating concentrations of reactants over time for first order reactions. 4) Explaining how reaction rates depend on reactant concentrations for different order reactions and decomposing reactions. 5) Writing differential rate equations and determining how rates change with varying reactant concentrations for reactions of different orders. 6) Calculating time for significant completion of first order reactions and determining activation energies from Arrhenius plots. 7) Calculating activation energies from rate

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1. i)The rate law is given by, 𝒓 = [𝑨 ] 1/2[𝑩] 𝟐 What is the order of this reaction.

ii) A first order reaction is found to have a rate constant 𝒌 = 𝟓. 𝟓 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟏𝟒𝑺 −𝟏 Find the Half life of
the reaction. iii) Write two differences between order and molecularity.

2. i)A reaction is 50% complete in 20 minutes at 300K and the same reaction again complete in 5
minutes at 350K. Calculate the activation energy if it is first order reaction [ R=8.314 JK-1Mole-1 ;
log4 =0.602]. ii)Define rate constant and order of a reaction

3. i)A first order reaction has a rate constant of 0.0051min-1 . If we begin with 0.10M concentration
of the reactant, what concentration of the reactant will be left after three hour?

ii)A reaction is second order with respect to a reactant .How is its rates effected when concentration
of the reactant is

i) doubled ii)reduced to half

4. i)Show graphically how the rate of a 1st order reaction with only one reactant depends upon the
concentration of the reactant

ii)Decomposition of phosphine (PH3) proceeds according to the following equation


4PH3(g)→P4(g)+6H2(g). It is found that the reaction follows the following rate equation Rate-k [PH3]
The half life of [PH3] is 37.9s at1200C.

i)How much time is required for 3/4th of phosphine to decompose.

ii)What fraction of original sample of PH3reemains behind after I minute. Determine the order of the
reaction with respect to A and with respect to B and overall order of the reaction.

5(a) A reaction is second order in A and first order in

B. (i).Write the differential rate equation.

(ii).How is the rate affected on increasing the concentrations of A three times?

(iii).How is the rate affected when the concentrations of both A and B are doubled?

(b). A first order reaction takes 40 minutes for 𝟑𝟎% decomposition. Calculate Expt. No A mole/l B
 mole/l Rate of formation of D mole/l/min 1 0.1 0.1 5.0x10-3 2 0.3 0.2 6.0x10-2 3 0.3 0.4 2.4x10-1 4
0.4 0.1 2.0x10-2 𝒕𝟏/𝟐 for this reaction. (Given log 1.428 = 0.1548)
6(a) For a first order reaction, show that time required for 99% completion is twice the time required
for the completion of 90% of reaction.

(b) Rate constant ‘k’ of a reaction varies with temperature ‘T’ according to the equation: logk = log A-
Ea/2.303 R Where Ea is the activation energy? When a graph is plotted for log k Vs 1/T, a straight
line with a slope of – 4250 K is obtained. Calculate ‘Ea’ for the reaction. (R = 8.314 J/Kmol).

7.(i) Decomposition reaction the value of rate constant K at two different temp are given below;
k1=2.15 x 10-8 L mol-1 S -1 at 650K ; k2=2.39 x 10-7 L Mol-1 S -1 at 700K. Calculate the value of
activation energy for this reaction (R=8.314 JK1Mole-1 )

(ii)Distinguish between rate constant and rate expression of a reaction.

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