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Pictorial Analogies Kinetics
Pictorial Analogies Kinetics
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RON DELORENZO
Middle Georgia College Cochran. GA31014
The time is the same, but since you started with five times as many couples you can produce five times as many babies. Auto collisions have often been compared to the biThe probability of molecular collisions in mechanisms (8). collisions increases with the number of cars in a n area (Figs. 2 and 31, just like the effect on reaction rates by increasing concentrations. Increasing speeds of the cars will increase the probability of collisions for the same concentration (Figs. 4 and 51, just like increasing the temperature increases reaction rates because it increases the speeds of the molecules, decreasing the time between collisions. Part o f presentations at the 5th Biennial Conference on Chemical the Education, Fort Collins. CO, July 25, 1978, Proceedings, pp 6 7 ; 9th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Bozeman. MT Julv 26, 1986; and the 1951" Nal onal ACS Meel ng an; 3ro &emid Congress of honn Amer~ca, Toronlo. Canada Jme 8 . 1988
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Figure 1. Analogy for the constant value o f the half life o f a first order reaction regardless of starting amount.
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Few can, collisions less likely Figure 2. Analogy to low reactant concentrations.
Longer time for collisions fewercollisions per time Figure 4. Analogy to low reaction temperatures.
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Shorter time till collisions, more collisions per time Figure 5. Analogy to high reaction temperatures
Bumper transferrequires head on collisions. not front to side f the orientations o f molecules on Figure 7. Analogy to the effect o reactions. energy to overcome activation harriers increasing the likelihood of the contact resulting in a reaction, such a s a n atom transfer. The orientation of the cars in a collision will also affect the resulting damage, just a s the orientations of collidina molecules affect the ~ossibilitv of a reaction a s shown Figure 7. Thc! condition of I he cars ma" also affect the outcome, iust hke the condition of honds in rrnctina molecules may affect the reaction. Copies of these illustrations will be sent on request. Acknowledgment I wish to thank the artist..Bruce Stiver. of Media Production Services at Wr~ght State for his hard work and talent in producing all rhe illustrations in this series and the chemistry department ibr the financ~al support rcquircd. I also wish to thank Jackie Ciever ibr t". w i n e a11 of the manuscripts.
Collisions more likely to cause more damage - bumper transfer Figure 6. Analogy to high temperature collisions being more likely to cause reactions. Faster speeds will also increase the damage to cars in collisions that do occur (Fig. 6) a s for instance making a ''bumper transfer" more likely just a s atom transfers may be more favored in more energetic collisions. I n other words, high temperatures in reactions also supply more
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