Friday, February 4th, 2011

Section 14.4 was finished up by discussing 2nd order, or bimolecular rate laws. Section 14.5 was then discusses as we analyzed the effect temperature has on the rate of a reaction. Collision theory explains how the temperature will influence the rate constants and Arrhenius proposed a way to calculate the rate constant using the activation energy of a particular reaction. At the end of class we briefly discussed reaction mechanisms, which can be found in section 14.6.