Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

The rate laws from Section 14.3 were discussed and these rate laws are determined from experimental data. Typically a set of experimental data points are given, or you are given graphical data, plotting some sort of concentration relationship vs. time. The overall rate law's were discussed and using experimental results, we were able to calculate the order with respect to each reactant. Section 14.4 then discusses the change of concentration vs. time and we discussed the integrated rate laws for zero and first order reactions.