AQA A-Level Chemistry - Rate Equations

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Summary

TLDRThe video covers the A2 kinetics topic, focusing on rates of reaction, a fundamental concept in chemistry which involves analyzing how quickly reactions occur. Key points include explaining reaction orders—zero, first, and second orders—and how they influence the rate. The concept that changes in reactant concentration can have varying effects on reaction rates is explored, highlighting that doubling a reactant concentration in a first order reaction doubles the rate, while in a second order reaction it can quadruple. The video guides the viewer on formulating rate equations using experimental data and introduces the rate determining step, which is the slowest step in a reaction mechanism impacting the overall rate. Practical problem-solving involving calculations for rate constants and determining overall reaction order from given data is also discussed.

Takeaways

  • 📈 Reaction rates are crucial for understanding chemical kinetics.
  • 🔄 Concentrations influence reaction rates differently based on order.
  • 🌀 Zero order means no concentration effect on rate.
  • ➡️ First order is direct proportionality with concentration.
  • ⏩ Second order has squared relation to concentration.
  • 🧮 Rate equations model how concentrations affect reaction rate.
  • 🔍 Determine rate equations via experimental data.
  • 🏃 Rate determining step sets the pace for the reaction.
  • 📊 Overall reaction order sums individual reactant orders.
  • 🧪 Calculating rate constants involves understanding reaction specifics.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video introduces the topic of A2 kinetics in chemistry, which revolves around rates of reaction. The speaker explains that while the concept might initially seem complex, understanding the general concepts and how exam questions are structured can make it easier. They emphasize the importance of concentration changes in affecting reaction rates, introducing the idea of zero and proportional effects depending on concentration changes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker further explains the concept of proportionality in reaction rates, illustrating how different concentrations can lead to different reaction orders (zero, first, and second order). They introduce the constant "K" in rate equations and begin exploring the effect of concentration changes of different reactants on the overall rate equation.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The concept of reaction order is dissected more, explaining how changing concentrations of reactants like A or B affects the overall rate. The speaker provides theoretical examples to show how changing concentrations in the reactions affects rate equations, emphasizing that this understanding is crucial for solving exam questions on this topic.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker illustrates how to deduce rate equations from experimental data by examining changes in reactant concentrations and their effects on reaction rates. They explain how experimental setups can reveal whether a reactant is zero, first, or second order, using a series of hypothetical experiments.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    A challenging example is given to show what happens when reactants do not exhibit clear proportional changes in concentrations. The speaker elaborates on how to handle such data, underscoring the importance of isolating one reactant's effects at a time, using their concentration changes to infer the reaction order.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Moving into calculations, the speaker uses past exam papers to illustrate how to calculate rate constants and initial rates. They detail the process of rearranging equations to solve for constants, and the importance of maintaining correct units throughout the calculations.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:37:54

    The video concludes with a discussion on rate determining steps in reactions. The speaker explains how to identify which step in a multi-step reaction is rate determining based on reactant orders provided in a rate equation. They highlight the significance of the rate equation in diagnosing the key steps affecting overall reaction speed.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the main focus of this video?

    The video focuses on A2 kinetics, specifically rates of reaction, reaction orders, and how to determine and use rate equations.

  • How is reaction rate affected by concentrations?

    Reaction rates can have no effect, be directly proportional, or be proportional to the square of the reactant's concentration.

  • What is a zero order reaction?

    A zero order reaction has no effect on the rate regardless of concentration changes.

  • What is a first order reaction?

    In a first order reaction, the rate is directly proportional to the concentration of one reactant.

  • What is a second order reaction?

    In a second order reaction, the rate is proportional to the square of the concentration of one reactant.

  • How do concentration changes affect reaction rates?

    Doubling the concentration of a reactant can double or quadruple the reaction rate, depending on the order of the reaction.

  • How are rate equations formed?

    Rate equations are determined based on the experimental data, showing how concentrations affect the rate.

  • What is the rate determining step?

    The rate determining step is the slowest step in a reaction mechanism that determines the overall reaction rate, and is reflected in the rate equation.

  • What is the overall order of a reaction?

    The overall order is the sum of the orders of all reactants in the rate equation.

  • How are units calculated for rate constants?

    Units for rate constants depend on the reaction order and can be derived from the rate equation.

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    right so this video is going to cover um
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    the A2 kinetics topic from uh unit four
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    um kinetics is really it's just sort of
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    a fancy term to describe rates of
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    reaction which is a topic that comes up
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    kind of really heavily within within
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    chemistry gtsc as where you looked at
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    things like Max Maxwell boltzman
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    distribution curves and then
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    A2 where it gets a little bit more
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    tricky um but actually once you've got
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    the kind of General Concepts um the the
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    ideas behind it are quite repetitive in
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    the way the exam questions work and so
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    actually you can quite quickly get to
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    grasp it and and get those extra marks
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    in the exam
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    so um
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    kinetics uh as I said we're essentially
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    looking at
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    rates of reaction and that's going to
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    play a huge huge role in uh in this
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    entire video and in all the calculations
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    that you do or when you have to do the
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    calculation part of it it's not all
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    based around
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    calculations uh but it does have quite a
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    heavy the calculation do have quite
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    heavy influence um on on actually the
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    way this sort of topic
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    works the the key thing here uh and
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    there's some sort of the idea what I'm
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    going to come on to particular when to
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    start talking about things like orders
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    and that I'll make sense hopefully in a
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    couple of minutes is the idea that and
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    back to GC read and I guess also I is
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    the idea that when you change
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    concentration you can or we've normally
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    said that we we would change the
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    reaction rate but we can change the
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    reaction rate um if we change the
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    concentration particularly when we're
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    looking at the the reactants involved
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    obviously generally sort of speaking
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    it's not necessarily going to be the
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    products that we're going to be looking
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    at although I guess depends on the kind
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    of question but looking at those
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    reactants so we could think of a generic
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    sort of reaction of a plus
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    b which reacts to ruce C so a plus b
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    react to produce C now if I just
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    concentrate on a initially within that
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    we could say
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    well I
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    guess changing the concentration of a
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    could have nothing to do with the rate
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    of the reaction that is occurring it's
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    the speed that this react changing the
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    concentration of a has no effect at all
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    um so that's our first
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    option no effect
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    this is changing the concentration of a
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    I should make that very clear
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    changing con of
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    a so it could have absolutely no effect
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    at all
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    second we could change the rate we could
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    change the concentration of a and it
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    could have an effect um so an effect and
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    that effect can really come in sort of
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    two ways we could say that the rate is
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    directly proportional to the
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    concentration of a um IE or I should say
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    sorry EG I
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    guess
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    double concentration of
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    a double the rate that would be a direct
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    proportionality between the two whatever
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    you do to a the concentration of a is
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    going to happen to the rate so you have
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    concentration of a you will have the
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    rate of the reaction Etc
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    um square brackets U if you are new to
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    those ideas depends if you've done any
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    of the other sort of topics square
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    brackets just uh a shorthand way really
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    of of saying concentration and that's
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    concentration in moles per decimet
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    cubed so we've
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    got this idea then that we rate could be
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    proportional to a we could also say that
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    the
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    rate is
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    proportional to a terrible draw on there
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    a squ uh and what we mean by that I know
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    where this arrow is going either what I
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    mean by that is that again if we say
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    that double
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    A in this case we
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    would
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    quadruple the
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    rate and these are really the three sort
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    of kinds of effect you're going to find
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    within the A2 so potentially no effect
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    at all or an effect and that effect is
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    going to come in two FS if you like one
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    where the rate is directly proportional
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    one where it's where it's proportional
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    to this a concentration
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    squared now if we say if we ignore the
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    no effect from minut and we'll go into
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    this one now whenever we have this
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    proportionality here we can actually
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    change that we can stick in a constant
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    so this is the same as really writing
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    here change the color we could say that
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    actually in this
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    case rate equals k
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    a and in this case we could say the rate
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    equals
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    K A squ and that's just taken
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    this um this this equation this this
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    whatever you would call this that's just
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    changed it basically got rid of the
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    proportionality sign stuck a K in and
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    then an equals rest Remains the Same
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    rate is equal now to k multip a squ now
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    I've ignored B obviously and I don't
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    want to start bringing B in at this
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    point um I'll do that in in a minute or
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    two's time um it's easier to do with one
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    and sort of think of these
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    ideas now to add onto that slightly
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    more the idea of orders of a reaction so
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    if we were talking about the order of
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    the reaction with respect to a no effect
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    is class as a zero
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    order an effect of this sort doubling
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    and doubling Haring and Haring this is a
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    first that be respect um order with
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    respect to a would be first order this
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    one would be a second order so
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    first
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    second and
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    really that links
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    into the indices that are that are next
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    to it if you imagine and I'll try and
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    explain this really clearly now you
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    could say that if a had no effect we
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    could say rate equals K of a
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    concentration of a to this zero and this
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    Z there is this
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    order well a to the 0 equal 1 therefore
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    there is no effect at all concentration
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    a is not going to do anything it's
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    always going to end up being one it's
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    going to affect the re re in no way at
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    all if we go here we could rewrite this
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    and we could say rate equals
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    k a to the one and that's come from
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    there the order is being shown
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    there well in this case yes
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    a to the^ of one is a so the rate is
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    equal to K multipli by a over here final
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    one
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    k a s and again that second order being
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    shown as the squaring there and this
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    again we can see now rate equals K
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    multipli by a squ concentration of a s
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    so these are classes the order of the
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    reaction if you're feeling a bit unsure
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    about this now as as the video goes on
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    it hopefully will make a little bit more
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    sense sense um with relation to sort of
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    what's actually kind of happening
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    here so as I said I've ignored a well
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    let's let's include sorry I've ignored B
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    I've definitely included a um let's take
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    this a little bit further let's say well
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    let's include B and let's just make a
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    really generic rate equation and what I
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    mean by that this is this is an equation
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    that um a rate equation that governs
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    this particular reaction that we're
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    talking about so just make this up and
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    I'll say the rate equation for the
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    reaction above um so this is the rate
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    equation for this reaction here I'm just
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    making this up okay this isn't no idea
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    you know really if this is true or not
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    obiously it's just a and b they don't
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    really
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    exist so the rate is equal to k multip a
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    s multiplied by B oh square bracket
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    there don't forget those bad what this
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    tells me then is that if I to double the
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    concentration of
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    a square brackets again I'd
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    quadruple the rate and if I were to
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    double concentration of B I would double
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    the rate because in this case the
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    reaction is first order with respect to
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    B so first
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    order with with
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    respect
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    to B just call it B if you like whatever
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    uh and this one
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    is second order again with respect but
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    in this case to a because we're obvious
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    talking about
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    a one fun little bit before we move on
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    actually look at some sort of numbers
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    which I think clarifies this slightly
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    you could give an
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    overall
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    order now in this case and in every case
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    actually the overall order is achieved
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    by adding together the individual orders
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    of the of the reactants or the the
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    components of the rate equation now in
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    this case we've got a second order so
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    we've got a two we've got a first order
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    we' got a one therefore overall order
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    here is equal to three that occasionally
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    has come up in
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    questions not a huge sort of amount
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    really but it's a fairly straightforward
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    if you do get it it's worth a Mark um
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    you've just got to add the numbers
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    together there so I mean another example
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    we could say um just to check on that
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    one rate is equal to c and d
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    and just both would be in first order of
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    respect to C and and also of D in this
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    case the overall order would be one + 1
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    therefore two so fairly simple stuff
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    adding these numbers together hopefully
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    nothing particularly difficult um there
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    it's a strange thing this idea of sort
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    of orders and the rest but it is just
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    hopefully I've kind of explained that in
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    in enough detail um as I've gone
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    up there is a a kind of a trick I guess
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    you could see when it comes to sort of
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    these rate equations um and that falls
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    into the following that imagine the
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    equation um let's A + B + C goes to D +
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    e what if this equation be for this what
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    I could say is and again I'm just making
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    up a rate equation I could set the rate
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    equation for this reaction is equal to
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    rate um
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    K and that would be a completely
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    legitimate um rate equation there the
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    what you we notice is that actually B
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    has not been included and the reason
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    there is is that
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    b does
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    not
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    affect rate or rather I I guess the
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    concentration of B does not affect the
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    rate so in that
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    case uh we could say
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    zero order there in the case of a first
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    order in the case of C it would be
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    second
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    order you're not always going to be get
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    get this sort of nice idea of having the
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    rate equation sometimes you will have to
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    make the rate equation which obviously
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    means you need to know what's involved
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    in the reaction what's Taken part and
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    all the rest and that's up to you to
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    deduce that uh which is hopefully what
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    I'm going to cover now um which I'm
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    hoping will make some sense so let's
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    have a look at this table here so this
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    table then shows
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    you four experiments I've taken this
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    from uh chem revised
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    .org rather than just make my own which
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    is a great website for um for notes
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    really if you are looking for actual
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    sort of hard copies of notes just print
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    them off and there they're all PDFs I
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    think but they're really good
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    website so four
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    experiments each these experiments we
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    have a rate here given and the rate is
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    mole per decimet cubed per second and
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    often this rate is denoting the loss of
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    something
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    um so the rate of decline so the the the
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    rate the concentration of something fall
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    that something Falls for example now
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    don't worry too much about what that is
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    but it's essentially just the rate and
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    so the higher the rate the the faster
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    the reaction which hopefully makes sense
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    we've got four experiments and you'll
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    notice that we've got three things we've
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    got a reaction that
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    involves
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    a b and c which is going to something
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    doesn't matter what it's going to it
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    doesn't affect the at all and you'll
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    notice that with each one of these
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    columns this is the concentration of a
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    in experiment 1 2 3 4 etc etc across to
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    including conservation of B and of C as
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    well so you'll notice these numbers are
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    some of them are the same some of them
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    are changing and this is very important
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    because the purpose of this is to use
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    this information or rather using this
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    information you could deduce your own
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    rate equation from what is here and they
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    do like to do this in exams they love to
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    give you this to do and actually once
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    you actually kind of think about what
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    could I do and some of you might be
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    watching this think and actually oh yeah
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    I understand exactly what I'm going to
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    do there um some may not the idea is
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    you're looking
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    for try and word this well you looking
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    to if you can keep two of them the same
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    we hold on let me start again you're
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    looking to compare two
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    experiments uh and you're looking to
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    start with one reactant at a time so
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    we'll start with a now we want the other
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    two to remain the same across those two
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    experiments uh whereas we want the one
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    that we're investigating to change so
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    for
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    example it works in this case that one
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    and two are are good experiments to
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    choose for a because these remain the
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    same 0.5 0.5 and this also Remains the
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    Same there 0.25 0.25 whereas a doubles
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    in experiment one we had a concentration
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    of 0.1 experiment two we had a
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    concentration of 0.2
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    now this comes back to thinking about
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    what we did earlier on it's the idea
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    that when I double the concentration of
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    a I then need to look I ignore these two
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    I'm looking directly now at the rate of
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    the reaction and I'm looking at how does
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    that affect the rate of reaction so I
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    I've doubled from 0.1 to 0.2 the
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    concentration of a oh well look the rate
  • 00:15:17
    has doubled from 0.1 to 0.2 it could go
  • 00:15:20
    from 0.2 to 0.4 the same thing is true
  • 00:15:23
    it has doubled therefore we could say
  • 00:15:25
    that again the a of course is proportion
  • 00:15:29
    therefore to the rate or vice versa rate
  • 00:15:32
    is proportional to a uh which is
  • 00:15:35
    actually a much better way to write it
  • 00:15:36
    this that's currently it's terrible run
  • 00:15:38
    it that way around so the rate is
  • 00:15:41
    proportional to a but of
  • 00:15:44
    course we could say there the rate
  • 00:15:46
    equals k a so we know in this case here
  • 00:15:51
    that a is first order so we could say
  • 00:15:55
    well let's write start writing a rate
  • 00:15:57
    equation we know that K is going to be
  • 00:15:59
    involved and we know that a is going to
  • 00:16:01
    be in there and it's not going to have
  • 00:16:02
    any IND to C there at all we look at B
  • 00:16:05
    next and then we'll look at
  • 00:16:06
    C so
  • 00:16:10
    B again same concept we need to keep
  • 00:16:14
    ideally keep the other two the same
  • 00:16:16
    across two experiments any two
  • 00:16:19
    experiments and look for B to have a
  • 00:16:21
    change now I can see that b will change
  • 00:16:23
    between here and here it doubles oh
  • 00:16:26
    brilliant this Remains the Same
  • 00:16:29
    0.1 0.1 0.25 again
  • 00:16:35
    0.25 when I
  • 00:16:37
    double the initial the well the
  • 00:16:39
    concentration of B I go from 0.5 to one
  • 00:16:43
    I quadruple the rate therefore B is
  • 00:16:47
    second order so I stick in my B here
  • 00:16:51
    stick up a little two there because it
  • 00:16:53
    is second
  • 00:16:54
    order finally we'll look at C try and
  • 00:16:57
    find another color running out now
  • 00:16:59
    difference would be between this one
  • 00:17:01
    then and this one uh where here we have
  • 00:17:04
    0.5 0.5 remaining constant there so we
  • 00:17:08
    double from 0.25 to 5 the concentration
  • 00:17:12
    C oh but look the rate Remains the Same
  • 00:17:15
    therefore this is zeroth I'm going to
  • 00:17:17
    call it zeroth no that's I think that's
  • 00:17:19
    right it's zeroth order with respect to
  • 00:17:21
    C therefore C is not included in the
  • 00:17:24
    rate equation so for this data given
  • 00:17:28
    there the rate equation would
  • 00:17:30
    be rate equals K multip the
  • 00:17:34
    concentration of a multip the
  • 00:17:35
    concentration of B squared and that is
  • 00:17:38
    the rate equation
  • 00:17:41
    done now through this you may have been
  • 00:17:44
    thinking yourself or you may not have
  • 00:17:45
    done it's not really any problem if not
  • 00:17:49
    what happens if you can't find an
  • 00:17:51
    experiment
  • 00:17:53
    where the other two that you are not
  • 00:17:56
    investigating or the other one the other
  • 00:17:58
    two and this this case the other one or
  • 00:18:00
    whatever remains constant when you're
  • 00:18:02
    changing the concentration of your
  • 00:18:04
    other um and exper an example would look
  • 00:18:08
    something like this so in this example
  • 00:18:10
    what we've got
  • 00:18:11
    then is a more tricky one to sort of get
  • 00:18:15
    your head round I guess in
  • 00:18:18
    that well initially perhaps wouldn't
  • 00:18:20
    know it's only once you start looking at
  • 00:18:21
    the data I mean we've got more weird
  • 00:18:22
    numbers here not really an issue doesn't
  • 00:18:24
    matter times 10 to Theus 6 don't care
  • 00:18:26
    ignore those we'll just treat not .5 0.3
  • 00:18:29
    and 2.4 three experiments this time
  • 00:18:32
    we've only got X and Y so we've got a
  • 00:18:33
    reaction that involves x + y going to
  • 00:18:37
    something we don't know what doesn't
  • 00:18:38
    really matter no one
  • 00:18:39
    cares okay so let's look at X I want to
  • 00:18:43
    investigate the
  • 00:18:44
    order with respect to X well brilliant
  • 00:18:48
    the first two here experiment one and
  • 00:18:49
    two y remains constant X doubles so it
  • 00:18:52
    doubles from 0.05 to 0.1 oh look the
  • 00:18:55
    rate doubles so we know that this rate
  • 00:18:59
    not written very well that really if I'm
  • 00:19:02
    honest we know the rate of the of the
  • 00:19:05
    reaction is going to have with with
  • 00:19:07
    respect to or the order I should say of
  • 00:19:10
    X is is first order so we could put a
  • 00:19:13
    one there if you like but we obviously
  • 00:19:14
    don't need
  • 00:19:16
    to so it's first order with respect to X
  • 00:19:19
    now we got to look at Y and we got to
  • 00:19:20
    say right let's look at y so the only
  • 00:19:21
    two we can use is this one and this one
  • 00:19:25
    there's a problem though this
  • 00:19:29
    is
  • 00:19:31
    quadrupling in the space this is
  • 00:19:34
    doubling now that's an
  • 00:19:37
    issue because that's not
  • 00:19:40
    constant the best thing to do about this
  • 00:19:43
    is if you know this is first order
  • 00:19:45
    because we've already decided that then
  • 00:19:47
    if this was to be quadrupled the rate
  • 00:19:49
    would be quadrupled so ignoring why for
  • 00:19:51
    now the initial rate here
  • 00:19:54
    0.15 when we quadruple it here we go to
  • 00:19:57
    2.4
  • 00:19:59
    now
  • 00:20:01
    if this alone were affecting the rate we
  • 00:20:05
    would expect
  • 00:20:07
    0.15 * 4 to go to
  • 00:20:12
    0.6 but we don't see
  • 00:20:15
    that that would only be true if this
  • 00:20:18
    reaction
  • 00:20:19
    were zero zeroth order with respect to Y
  • 00:20:24
    if y had no effect at all we would
  • 00:20:25
    expect to see this go from 0.15 0 six
  • 00:20:29
    that's clearly not not the case so we
  • 00:20:30
    know for a fact now why can only it can
  • 00:20:34
    be 0 one or two it cannot be zero now
  • 00:20:38
    can it be first
  • 00:20:40
    order we would expect this to go to 0.6
  • 00:20:42
    well if this was first order then
  • 00:20:44
    doubling this would double the rate so
  • 00:20:46
    we would expect this
  • 00:20:48
    0.6 to go to 1.2 well hold on it doesn't
  • 00:20:51
    it goes to 2.4 so therefore it can't be
  • 00:20:54
    a first order it must therefore be the
  • 00:20:57
    second order and when you look at this
  • 00:20:58
    you can kind of get you can kind of
  • 00:21:00
    understand it treat each one
  • 00:21:02
    individually to an extent do the
  • 00:21:04
    calculations one and then the other this
  • 00:21:06
    would be times four taken to 0.6 this
  • 00:21:08
    one though when it's
  • 00:21:10
    doubled this then goes up by four so we
  • 00:21:14
    go from 0.6 up to
  • 00:21:16
    2.4 that must mean this is second order
  • 00:21:19
    so if we were to finish the equation
  • 00:21:20
    then it's going to look like that K
  • 00:21:25
    multip by x^ of one or we can ignore
  • 00:21:27
    that doesn't matter multip by y^ of 2
  • 00:21:31
    y^2 so it's a more difficult example
  • 00:21:33
    this one it is more tricky and again the
  • 00:21:35
    key thing here work out one you will
  • 00:21:38
    always be able to work out one of them
  • 00:21:40
    easily and in this case it was working
  • 00:21:42
    out X first so we knew that X was first
  • 00:21:45
    order looking at y knowing that X is
  • 00:21:48
    first order we know what we would
  • 00:21:50
    expect if this was only the only thing
  • 00:21:52
    having the effect but of course it's not
  • 00:21:55
    because the way the the reaction changed
  • 00:21:56
    it's not 0.6 we would expect it's not
  • 00:21:59
    one 1.2 which would be true if this was
  • 00:22:02
    a first order it therefore must be
  • 00:22:04
    second order because it quadruples the
  • 00:22:06
    .6 that we would expect sorry it
  • 00:22:09
    quadruples the 0.6 from X up to 2.4 not
  • 00:22:13
    sure I've explained that brilliantly
  • 00:22:15
    well there towards the end um hopefully
  • 00:22:17
    that makes some sense and that actually
  • 00:22:19
    isn't too too much sort of trouble
  • 00:22:24
    um the final part really is calculating
  • 00:22:27
    is calculating various things you could
  • 00:22:29
    be asked to calculate K you could be
  • 00:22:31
    asked to calculate the and all the rest
  • 00:22:33
    and actually to do this I'm going to
  • 00:22:34
    show you a p
  • 00:22:36
    paper okay so this is a paper from
  • 00:22:38
    January 2013 and it's unit four paper
  • 00:22:43
    um now what you've got here you can see
  • 00:22:46
    that in this case our try where the pen
  • 00:22:50
    is oh it's there there we
  • 00:22:52
    go in this case we have a a reaction of
  • 00:22:57
    it looks like probably B and C there um
  • 00:23:00
    so B and C react and we're given a table
  • 00:23:03
    similar to what I showed you before
  • 00:23:04
    where we have an experiment here where
  • 00:23:06
    we have one and two we have an initial
  • 00:23:08
    concentration of B and of C between
  • 00:23:10
    different differing between the two uh
  • 00:23:12
    we have an initial rate there and we
  • 00:23:13
    need to calculate this one here so what
  • 00:23:17
    do we do well we need this data here
  • 00:23:20
    calculation wise what are we going to do
  • 00:23:26
    well initially
  • 00:23:28
    we're looking to calculate k for
  • 00:23:31
    experiment one and I've lost the pen
  • 00:23:33
    again oh there it is so looking to
  • 00:23:35
    calculate k for experiment one so we
  • 00:23:37
    given this equation
  • 00:23:41
    here this needs to be rearranged so
  • 00:23:43
    that's going to be your first step so
  • 00:23:45
    rearrange this to make K the subject so
  • 00:23:47
    K is going to be equal
  • 00:23:51
    to B
  • 00:23:53
    squared no it's not ignore that entirely
  • 00:23:57
    terrible K is going to be equal to
  • 00:24:00
    rate
  • 00:24:04
    over B ^2
  • 00:24:06
    multiplied by
  • 00:24:09
    c um so K so I've divided this side by
  • 00:24:11
    b^ S multip by C obviously therefore
  • 00:24:13
    goes under there putting in actual
  • 00:24:15
    numbers into this we're dealing with
  • 00:24:17
    experiment one as it says in the
  • 00:24:18
    question so rate well that's given to us
  • 00:24:22
    as 8.4 * 10- 5 okay b^ 2 well B is given
  • 00:24:29
    to us as 4.2 * 10- 2 C we are told is
  • 00:24:37
    2.6 *
  • 00:24:40
    10us 2 just bracket that to make it look
  • 00:24:42
    a little bit clearer or you go W into a
  • 00:24:45
    calculator and you're going to get an
  • 00:24:47
    answer that's going to be your value 4K
  • 00:24:49
    and that answer in this case comes out
  • 00:24:50
    to be
  • 00:24:54
    1.83 now if we scroll down here
  • 00:24:56
    obviously you'd get more of this in
  • 00:24:58
    terms of the paper you seal see a bit
  • 00:25:00
    more at once so asking us for the units
  • 00:25:03
    as well so we need to calculate units
  • 00:25:05
    for this I've lost the pen again oh
  • 00:25:06
    there it is okay so K units so let's
  • 00:25:10
    have a look we
  • 00:25:21
    have over
  • 00:25:25
    mole and I would do it like this I think
  • 00:25:27
    it make makes it a little
  • 00:25:32
    bit clearer oh I would say
  • 00:25:37
    anyway so we've got mole decimeter cubed
  • 00:25:40
    per second oh dodgy line oh oh there we
  • 00:25:44
    go mle decim Cub per second over mle per
  • 00:25:47
    decim cubed multip by mole per decim Cub
  • 00:25:49
    multip by mole per decimeter cubed and
  • 00:25:51
    I've lost the pen again there it is Tiny
  • 00:25:54
    um so what can we do well we can cancel
  • 00:25:56
    some stuff for a start so we know that
  • 00:25:59
    this will cancel with one of these
  • 00:26:02
    leaving us with basically this bit here
  • 00:26:05
    so you've essentially got second to the
  • 00:26:08
    minus one over these two that multiplied
  • 00:26:12
    by that with any sort of Indy kind of
  • 00:26:15
    calculation isn't you you've just got to
  • 00:26:17
    sort of know how to do these really um
  • 00:26:20
    multiply the moles by each other or as
  • 00:26:22
    you would expect it's going to give you
  • 00:26:23
    mole squared
  • 00:26:26
    DM multipli by DM dmus 3 m DM to the
  • 00:26:31
    minus 3 um is going to
  • 00:26:35
    be um DM to the minus 6 when you
  • 00:26:38
    multiply indices if you're not sure of
  • 00:26:40
    this multiply indices you add them
  • 00:26:42
    together so it's minus three add Min -3
  • 00:26:45
    which is going to give us minus 6 um the
  • 00:26:47
    mole it's if you imagine it's mole to
  • 00:26:50
    the one multip by mole to the one is
  • 00:26:51
    going to give you mole to the two
  • 00:26:53
    because this is over that um to give it
  • 00:26:56
    K into sort of to remove I guess the um
  • 00:27:02
    the element of of the fraction here I've
  • 00:27:05
    lost 10 again oh there it is um we're
  • 00:27:10
    basically going
  • 00:27:12
    to stick minuses in front of these so
  • 00:27:15
    what we're going to end up with
  • 00:27:19
    is mole to minus
  • 00:27:22
    2 dm6 basically minus and a minus can
  • 00:27:25
    end up with a plus second to Theus - 1
  • 00:27:28
    and they are going to be your units in
  • 00:27:30
    this case it's 1.83 mo- 2 dm6 secondus
  • 00:27:36
    one okay next bit calculate the value
  • 00:27:39
    for the initial rate in experiment two
  • 00:27:41
    if you can find where the pen is I I
  • 00:27:44
    need to work out how this is going to
  • 00:27:46
    work honestly made it any smaller um so
  • 00:27:51
    calculate value the initial rate in
  • 00:27:53
    experiment two so this time nice easy
  • 00:27:55
    one rate equals k um and it was try and
  • 00:28:00
    remember this one it
  • 00:28:02
    was e
  • 00:28:04
    s multip by C obviously on your paper
  • 00:28:07
    you would be able to look up a little
  • 00:28:08
    bit clearer and see that
  • 00:28:10
    there this time we're put numbers in and
  • 00:28:12
    we're going to calculate the rate sorry
  • 00:28:15
    I wasn't supposed to be
  • 00:28:17
    there K we can use from the previous
  • 00:28:20
    question because the the K is is is is a
  • 00:28:24
    constant so it's going to remain
  • 00:28:25
    constant in this it changes with things
  • 00:28:26
    like um temperature uh amongst other
  • 00:28:30
    things but for this
  • 00:28:32
    initial because we're talking
  • 00:28:35
    about or you can assume same conditions
  • 00:28:37
    betweener exper American experiment one
  • 00:28:40
    and experiment two the the constant
  • 00:28:42
    there for this particular reaction is
  • 00:28:43
    going to remain the same so in that case
  • 00:28:46
    you can use uh the constant here so
  • 00:28:50
    we've got
  • 00:28:53
    1.83 we've got to actually go up and get
  • 00:28:55
    our values so B for experiment two
  • 00:28:58
    remember not experiment 1 be 6.3 * 10 -
  • 00:29:03
    2 6.3 * 10-
  • 00:29:07
    2 squared multiplied by 7.8 * 10- 2 7.8
  • 00:29:14
    * 10 - 2 and that's going to give us an
  • 00:29:18
    answer of
  • 00:29:21
    5.67 * 10 to
  • 00:29:24
    Theus 4 uh in terms of rate we know
  • 00:29:28
    our units here mole DM cubed oh that's a
  • 00:29:32
    terrible three seconds minus
  • 00:29:35
    one okay so a bit of calculation that's
  • 00:29:38
    just sort of standard thing you expect
  • 00:29:40
    to be able to do and actually really
  • 00:29:41
    it's just putting numbers into into into
  • 00:29:44
    the equations given or equations that
  • 00:29:45
    you
  • 00:29:47
    found going down so this is one of those
  • 00:29:50
    ones that I showed you before so we've
  • 00:29:51
    got three more experiments here um this
  • 00:29:54
    taste we're looking at uh DNE so DNA at
  • 00:29:58
    at a constant temperature notice that's
  • 00:29:59
    a key thing it tells us the rate's going
  • 00:30:01
    to remain so not the rate soor the
  • 00:30:02
    constants going to remain um true or
  • 00:30:05
    remain equal for uh for all of
  • 00:30:07
    them so experiment we're looking for the
  • 00:30:10
    order of reaction with respect to D so
  • 00:30:13
    we're looking ready to keep these the
  • 00:30:14
    same excellent straight away I can see
  • 00:30:16
    that we kept them the same that's
  • 00:30:18
    perfect now whilst these remain the same
  • 00:30:21
    between those this goes up by three now
  • 00:30:26
    our initial reate initial rate our
  • 00:30:29
    initial rate if it was Zero order it
  • 00:30:32
    would not change so we know that it is
  • 00:30:34
    not zero order if it were first order
  • 00:30:38
    this 0.26 would be multiplied by three
  • 00:30:40
    and that would give us our value now I'm
  • 00:30:42
    pretty sure that is's not multiply by
  • 00:30:45
    three because I believe that multiply
  • 00:30:46
    three you would get
  • 00:30:50
    0.78 that's not true either so it's not
  • 00:30:53
    first order so it must therefore be
  • 00:30:55
    second order um in terms of second order
  • 00:30:57
    just to check that you
  • 00:31:01
    essentially this multip by three
  • 00:31:04
    remember because of the squared as this
  • 00:31:07
    If This Were say doubled the the rate
  • 00:31:09
    would be quadrupled this is tripled
  • 00:31:11
    therefore the rate is nine duped um
  • 00:31:15
    which isn't a word but essentially the
  • 00:31:17
    rate goes up by nine that's what we
  • 00:31:19
    would expect this was second order and
  • 00:31:21
    looking at these numbers I'm pretty
  • 00:31:24
    happy that that is going to be the case
  • 00:31:25
    yeah so 0.26 basically
  • 00:31:29
    time 10 minus 3 multip by 9 you should
  • 00:31:33
    get absolutely perfectly 2.34 * 10 to
  • 00:31:37
    Theus 3 a fairly easy um granted only
  • 00:31:42
    one Mark there but you know a reasonably
  • 00:31:44
    easy sort of Mark to get to be honest um
  • 00:31:48
    now we're looking at it with respect to
  • 00:31:49
    e now notice straight away this is one
  • 00:31:52
    of those dodgy ones this is one of those
  • 00:31:54
    that we looked at and we're like oh bit
  • 00:31:57
    weird we're looking at respect to e
  • 00:32:00
    again if I can find this pen I need to
  • 00:32:03
    work this out right there we go
  • 00:32:06
    oh right respect to e now in this
  • 00:32:11
    case look for E changing so here we go
  • 00:32:15
    between three and five and E is doubling
  • 00:32:18
    in that time so we're now looking
  • 00:32:21
    between three and five this one is
  • 00:32:22
    between three and five now this goes up
  • 00:32:24
    quite a lot this I would guess is is
  • 00:32:28
    going up what uh six times okay this is
  • 00:32:31
    going up six
  • 00:32:35
    times now we would expect if this is
  • 00:32:38
    increasing six times then we've got to
  • 00:32:40
    initially look at this before we even
  • 00:32:42
    think about looking at e if this alone
  • 00:32:44
    was to be responsible then we would
  • 00:32:47
    multiply the
  • 00:32:50
    0.26
  • 00:32:51
    by
  • 00:32:55
    six 36 he says realizing this error
  • 00:32:59
    again because of the fact that it's
  • 00:33:00
    squared so if this was doubled we would
  • 00:33:03
    quadruple the rate if this was tripled
  • 00:33:05
    we would nine duple the rate it's not
  • 00:33:07
    it's six it's six so we 36 the rate now
  • 00:33:12
    in terms of looking that that on a
  • 00:33:14
    calculator uh if we work that out we
  • 00:33:16
    actually get 2
  • 00:33:18
    9.36 * 10 to the minus 3 that means that
  • 00:33:24
    this must be zeroth order because this
  • 00:33:26
    alone is C cusing that reaction or the
  • 00:33:29
    rate change this goes up by six rate is
  • 00:33:32
    increased by by a factor of 36 therefore
  • 00:33:35
    e is just zeroth order so order of
  • 00:33:39
    reaction with respect to e zero there we
  • 00:33:44
    go okay question one continues on the
  • 00:33:46
    next page more question
  • 00:33:48
    one this is the other type of question
  • 00:33:51
    that you can get when it comes to um
  • 00:33:53
    particular of the kinetics aspect and
  • 00:33:56
    this is one rather than going through it
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    um on the on the bit before I thought it
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    best to Really Leave it to
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    this this is a question which talks
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    about sort of um processes and and I
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    guess what's called the rate determining
  • 00:34:10
    step so this phrase that you've
  • 00:34:13
    got um here so the rate determining step
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    ultimately the rate determining step is
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    the step that determines the rate so
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    it's not particularly sort of inventive
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    um as to what the um
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    the way they've worded it and it works
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    in Reactions where we have uh more than
  • 00:34:33
    one step so one that occurs in stages
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    and a lot of reactions do occur in
  • 00:34:37
    stages although they can be written as
  • 00:34:38
    an overall equation they do occur as as
  • 00:34:41
    multiple points and you can see this one
  • 00:34:42
    here the overall reaction is this one
  • 00:34:47
    here um but it can be broken down or it
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    suggested that there's there's there is
  • 00:34:51
    a two-step process that that could be
  • 00:34:53
    being followed where we have this
  • 00:34:55
    reaction uh breaks down to form the
  • 00:34:57
    carbocation bromo etc etc now it says
  • 00:35:00
    deduce the rate determining step in this
  • 00:35:02
    two-step process okay so what it's
  • 00:35:04
    saying is the reaction was found to be
  • 00:35:07
    first order with respect to
  • 00:35:09
    ch33 CBR so first order
  • 00:35:13
    here but zero order or zero order with
  • 00:35:17
    respect to the
  • 00:35:19
    hydroxide ions now one of the important
  • 00:35:23
    things here is the rate determining step
  • 00:35:25
    is the one that the rate equation uh
  • 00:35:29
    will adhere
  • 00:35:30
    to okay so rate determining step
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    uh I don't want to say equals rate
  • 00:35:38
    reaction but this is the so the rate
  • 00:35:40
    equation will
  • 00:35:41
    apply to this step and not to the other
  • 00:35:45
    steps so in terms of the rate equation
  • 00:35:47
    here we know that our rate equation is
  • 00:35:50
    basically involving this first order
  • 00:35:53
    there zero order there so our rate
  • 00:35:55
    equation would be something like POS
  • 00:35:57
    possibly could be k
  • 00:36:02
    um
  • 00:36:05
    ch3 3 C
  • 00:36:08
    BR um Clos brackets there that could be
  • 00:36:11
    our our rate equation in terms of the
  • 00:36:13
    steps well first step here step
  • 00:36:17
    one we'll start with step two because
  • 00:36:20
    the answer is step one step two just
  • 00:36:23
    can't be that because we know that the
  • 00:36:25
    hydroxide ions have zero order so this
  • 00:36:28
    step could not be determining the rate
  • 00:36:30
    of the reaction because actually
  • 00:36:31
    changing the concentration of the
  • 00:36:32
    hydroxide ions does nothing to the rate
  • 00:36:35
    therefore nothing can to happen there uh
  • 00:36:37
    and this being this sort of the chyoa IR
  • 00:36:39
    again isn't part of we're not told
  • 00:36:41
    anything about that um so that's not
  • 00:36:43
    going to be involved Diva this one
  • 00:36:44
    though step one the ch33
  • 00:36:48
    CBR actually we can see that is part of
  • 00:36:51
    our we know that is first order so if we
  • 00:36:53
    changed if we
  • 00:36:55
    hared the concentration of this and we
  • 00:36:58
    you know and we drop this down to you
  • 00:37:03
    know I don't know to a very very low
  • 00:37:05
    amount actually we find
  • 00:37:08
    that this would have an effect changing
  • 00:37:10
    the concentration of this guy would have
  • 00:37:14
    an effect whereas this wouldn't again
  • 00:37:15
    from the information given to us zero
  • 00:37:17
    order to respect the hydroxide ions
  • 00:37:19
    therefore this here so step one must in
  • 00:37:23
    fact be the rate determining step
  • 00:37:24
    because it is the one that the rate
  • 00:37:26
    equation which we can fix figure out
  • 00:37:28
    from the information given that's what
  • 00:37:29
    the rate equation aderes to has been a
  • 00:37:32
    bit of Whistle Stop tour there of
  • 00:37:33
    kinetics right through trying to explain
  • 00:37:35
    a bit about what sort of the um the idea
  • 00:37:37
    of the orders of the reactions are uh
  • 00:37:39
    then going through
  • 00:37:41
    and bit about how you can work out
  • 00:37:44
    orders bit of calculation there as well
  • 00:37:45
    finally with um this little guy here so
  • 00:37:49
    hopefully that's been of some help um
  • 00:37:51
    any problems do leave comments or get in
  • 00:37:53
    touch
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