INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE

(SSI 3013)
SCIENCE IS BETTER IN DATA LOGGING
RATE OF REACTIONS
Prepared for:
Mr. Azmi Bin Ibrahim
Present by:
Siti Nurnajah Adilah Binti Rosli ( D20161073930 )
&
Nur Nadhira Binti Nadzaruddin ( D20161075136 )

The Effect of Catalyst on Rate of

Reaction

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT
Catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a
chemical reaction.
Catalyst speeds up a chemical reaction but is not
consumed by the reaction.
The higher the concentration of enzyme catalase, the
higher the amount of oxygen released by the
destroyed hydrogen peroxides.
The higher the enzyme catalase, the higher the rate of
collision between enzyme catalase and hydrogen
peroxide, more hydrogen peroxide being destroyed
and released oxygen gas.

2 H2O2 (aq) 2 H2O () + O2 (g)

1.0 INTRODUCTION
a. What is computer data logging ?
i. Computer data logging is the process of recording events,
with an automated computer program.
ii. This program provides an audit trail that can be used to
understand the activity of the system as to diagnose problem.
iii. The results and observation and measurement are presented
in graph and table form after being processed.
iv. Computer data logging composed of several main parts such
as sensor, interface box and computer with appropriate
software.
v. Sensor is the device that responds to some physical property
of the environment by detecting the physical variation and
converted into voltage signal and being recognized by the
interface box.

b. What is catalyst and how it

affects the rate of reaction ?
a. A catalyst can be defined as a substance
that increases the rate of chemical reaction.
b. Catalyst can speeds up a chemical reaction
but is not consumed by the reaction.
Thus, in this experiment, the teacher has use
data logger to conduct an experiment about
the effect of catalyst on the rate of the
reaction. The pressure sensor is used to
measure the production of oxygen gas
produced.

2.0 Engage
statement: you are given two different pictures about the ways for a
man to reach his office which is located at the seventh floor. Observe the
picture carefully.

Based on the pictures above, which one do you think is faster? Give
reason.
What substance that have similar representation with the elevator for this
situation ?
What will happen if the amount of that substance increased?

Question:
1. What can you observe based on the
pictures ?
2. Based on the picture, which one do you
think is the faster ? Give reason.
3. What type of substance that may have the
similar representation of the with the elevator
for this situation? And state its function.
4. How can you relate the time taken for the
man to reach his office at 7th floor if there are
two elevators provided?

Answer:
1. In picture 1.0, the man used the stairs to reach the
7th floor whereas in picture 2.0, the man used the
elevator to reach the 7th floor.
2. Based on the two methods given, by using elevator
the time taken to reach the 7th floor is shorter than by
using the stairs. This is because, the elevator provide
an alternative pathway for the man to reach his office
at 7th floor within shorter time compared with by
using the stairs.
3. Catalyst. Substance that provides an alternative
pathway to increase the rate of chemical reaction by
lowering their activation energies. However, catalyst
does not cause a reaction to occur, as it only increases
the reaction that occur even if the catalyst is absent.
4. The two elevators will male the man arrive faster to
his office at the 7th floor as if one of the elevators is
being used, he can get into the other one.

3.0 Empower

Planning And Doing Your Experiment

3.0 Empower
Procedure:
1.Connect the Oxygen Gas Sensor to the computer interface. Prepare
the
computer for data collection by opening the file 02 (02) Enzyme
from the
Advanced Biology with Vernier folder of LoggerPro.
2. Click Length menu.
3. Change the length to 180 s , then click ok
4. Place four test tubes in rack and label them 1,2,3 and 4.

5. Fill each test tube with 3 ml of water and 3 ml of

3% of H2O2
6. Connect the plastic tubing of the pressure sensor
with the gentle half turned.
7. Initiate the enzyme catalase reaction as follow:
a) Placed 1 drop of enzyme catalase into test
tube 1
b) Quickly stopper the tube.
c) Swirled the test tube gently.
d) Connect the other plastic tubing to the top of
the stopper.

e) Then, start the data collection. Continue to swirled 3 minutes of

data collection.
f) Once, data collector is finished, removed the stopper from the
top of the test tube.

8. To determine the rate at which oxygen was produced, click

analyse menu and choose curve fit, and then click pressure
9. Fold down fit equation menu and choose linear , then click ok.
10. The slope will represent the rate at which oxygen was
produced.

11. Repeat the experiment with different enzyme catalase

concentration with 2, 3 and 4 drops of enzyme catalase into test
tube 2,3 and 4 labelled test tubes.
12. After completing the experiment, you can show all rums of
experiment by choosing Run 4 and then click All runs.

13. Compared all the graphs.

Empower
Result: Graph of Oxygen Produced

Question:
1. Which type of catalyst that being used in this experiment?
2. Which concentration of enzyme catalase having the highest rate of
reaction ?
3. What type of gas being produced ?
4. What is the equation can be form for the production of that type of gas ?
5. Compare the four graphs and give reasons.

Answer :
6. Positive catalyst. This is because a positive type of catalyst will increase the
rate of reaction.
7. 4 drops of enzyme catalase
8. Oxygen gas
9. 2H2O2 (l)
2H2O (l) + O2 (g)
10.Based the four graphs, we can see that the graph for 4 drops of enzyme
catalase is more slope followed by the 3 drops of enzyme catalase, 2 drops of
enzymes and the last one is graph for 1 drop of enzyme catalase. From the
results, it shows that the higher concentration of enzyme catalase the higher
the pressure of oxygen gas being detected by the pressure sensor, the graph
also become more slope. In conclusion, the higher the concentration of
enzyme catalase, the higher the production of oxygen gas.

4.0 Enhance

The uses of enzyme catalyst that we can see is when we want to tender
the meat. As we all knows it is had to tender a meat. We need to use
mallet to tender the meat. It is hard and consume lot of time. Using mallet
also required a lot f energy and effort in order to tender the meat. In
contrast when we use enyzme to tender meat. The catalyst that we can
use to tender meat are purified papain and also protease. Purified papain
can rapidly hydrolyse the protein so the meat that we can get are more
softer.

In conclusion, when there is present of catalyst , the time taken

Unique Feature of This

Activity
We can stopped the data logger whenever we
want because before start the experiment, we
had set the time and when the time for the
experiment had finished it will stopped
automatically.
The rate of reaction cannot be detected by our
naked eyes. Thus, by using the data logger the
reading of rate of reaction between enzyme
catalase and hydrogen peroxide can be record
every one minutes per hour.