CHAPTER 4: CHEMICAL KINETICS

One mark questions:

1. From the following plot predict the order of the reaction.

2. From the following plot predict the order of the reaction.

3. What happens half life of zero order reaction when initial concentration of reactants increases?
4. What happens half life of first order reaction when initial concentration of reactants increases.
5. Unit of rate constant of a reaction is same as that of its rate. What is the order of the reaction
6. The rate equation for the reaction A+B →Products is rate = k[A]1/2[B]2. What is the order of the
reaction?
7. For the 2NH3 ⎯⎯⎯⎯ 1130J
Pt catalyst
→ N 2 + 3H 2 reaction, what is the order of the reaction?
8. What happens to the half life period of a first order if the initial concentration of the reactants is
increased?
9. A reaction is 50% complete in 4 hours and 80% complete in 8 hours. What is the order of the
reaction?
10. In a zero order reaction , the time taken to reduce the concentration of the reactant from 50% to
25% is 30 minutes. What is the time required to reduce the concentration from 25% to 12.5%?
Two mark questions:
11. Derive an equation for half life of zero order reaction or Show that half life of zero order reaction
is directly proportional to initial concentration of reactants.
12. Derive an equation for half life of first order reaction or Show that half life of first order reaction
is independent to initial concentration of reactants.
13. Write Arrhenius equation and explain the terms.
14. What is Pseudo first order reaction? Give an example.
15. Write any two differences between order and molecularity.
16. Write the two criteria for effective collisions according to collision theory.
17. Define collision frequency and activation energy.
18. What is the effect of catalyst on Activation energy?
19. The rate constant of a certain first order reaction is 200s-1.Calculate the half life the reaction?
20. Draw the graph of potential energy versus reaction coordinate showing the effect of catalyst
energy.
21. Explain the effect of a catalyst on activation energy of a reaction with graph.
22. Draw the graph of [R] versus time t for a zero order reaction. Give the relationship between the
rate constant and the slope of the curve.
23. Calculate the half life of the first order reaction having a rate constant 2×10-3s-1
24. Calculate the half life of the first order reaction having a rate constant 6.93×10-3s-1
25. Show that rate of first order reaction is doubled when concentration of reactant is doubled.
26. A reaction is first order with respect to the reactant A and second order with respect to reactant B
in a reaction A +B → Product.
(i) Write the differential rate equation
(ii) How is the rate of the reaction affected by increasing the concentration of B 2 times.
27. What is a zero order reaction. Give an example
28. For the reaction A + B → Product, The rate becomes doubled when the concentration of only A
is doubled and the rate becomes 4 times when the concentration of only B is doubled. What is
the order of the reaction?
29. Half life of a certain reaction is directly proportional to the initial concentration of the reactant.
Predict the order of the reaction write the expression to calculate the half life of the reaction
30. Show that for the first order reaction t87.5% = 3 t50%.
Three mark questions:
31. Derive integrated rate equation for first order reaction.
32. Derive integrated rate equation of zero order reaction.
33. The specific reaction rate (rate constant) of a reaction quadruples when the temperature changes
from 30 degrees to 50 degrees. Calculate the energy of activation of the reaction.
(Given: R= 8.314 JK-1 mol-1)
34. Rate constant of a reaction at 300K and 400K are 0.034s-1and 0.136s-1 respectively. Calculate the
activation energy of thee reaction. (R=8.314 JK-1mol-1)

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