CHEMICAL KINETICS (BASICS/RATE OF REACTION/ORDER/MOLECULARITY) CODE: 2019-20/1

1. Ammonia and oxygen react at high 6. For a reaction nA product, if

temperature as: the rate constant and the rate of
4NH3 + 5O2 4NO + 6H2O. reaction are equal, what is the order
In an expt, the rate of formation of of reaction?
NO is 3.6x10-3 Ms-1. Calculate a) rate A) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3
of disappearance of ammonia and 7. For a hypothetical reaction, A B it
b) rate of formation of water. is found that the rate constant is x s-1.
2. In the following reaction, how is the By what factor the rate is increased if
rate of appearance of the underlined the initial concentration of A is
product related to the rate of tripled?
disappearance of the underlined A) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
reactant? 8. The rate of reaction 3A + 2B
BrO3- + 5Br- + 6H+ 3Br2 + 3H2O products is given by rate expression,
d[Br2] 5 −d[Br−] r= k [A] [B]2. If A is taken in excess, the
a) 𝑑𝑡
=3 𝑑𝑡
d[Br2] −d[Br−] order of the reaction would be
b) =
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡 a) 3 b) 2 c) 1 d) 5
d[Br2] 1 −d[Br−]
c) = 9. The rate of a gaseous reaction is given
𝑑𝑡 3 𝑑𝑡
d)
d[Br2] 3 −d[Br−]
= by the expression k [A]2 [B]3. The
𝑑𝑡 5 𝑑𝑡
volume of the reaction vessel is
3. I) For the reaction at 273K (gases)
suddenly reduced to one-half of the
NO + O3 NO2 + O2. It is
initial volume. The reaction rate
observed that the pressure of NO falls
relative to the original rate will be
from 700mm Hg to 500mm Hg in
a) 1/24 b) 1/32 c) 32 d) 24
250s. Calculate the average rate of
10. The rate constant of the reaction
reaction in atm/s.
depends on
a) 1.053x10-3 b) 1.053x10-4
a) temperature
c) 2.053x10-3 d) 2.053x10-4
b) initial concentration of reactants
II) Also, calculate the average rate of
c) time of reaction d) extent of rxn
reaction in mol/L s.
11. For non-stoichiometric reaction
a) 4.7x10-5 b) 5.9x10-5
2A + B C + D . the following data
c) 3.2x10-5 d) 9.8x10-5
were obtained in 3 expts. All at 298K.
4. For a rxn, 2NO + 2H2 N2 + 2H2O
Initial [A] Initial [B] Initial rate of
the following data were obtained:
formation of C
[NO] mol/L [H2] mol/L rate 0.1M 0.1M 1.2x10-3
1. 5x10-3 2.5x10-3 3x10-5 0.1M 0.2M 1.2x10-3
2. 15x10-3 2.5x10-3 9x10-5 0.2M 0.1M 2.4x10-3
-3 -3 3.6x10-4
3. 15x10 10x10 The rate law for the formation of C is
Calculate the order of reaction and a) r= k [A] [B]2 b) r= k [A]
rate constant. c) r= k [A] [B] d) r= k [A]2 [B]
a) 2,2.4 b) 1,1.4 c) 3,2.4 d) 0,1.4
12. For elementary reaction, M N the
5. The rate constant for the reaction rate of disappearance of M increases
2N2O5 4NO2 + O2 is 3x10-5s-1. If by a factor of 8 upon doubling the
the rate is 2.4x10-5 mol/L s, then the concentration of M. the order of
initial concentration of N2O5 is: reaction with respect to M is:
a) 1.4 b) 1.2 c) 0.04 d) 0.8 A) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4