Explain and use the terms: order and half-life. Week 15 Explain and use the terms: order and half-life. Deduce the half-life of a first-order reaction from a concentration–time graph. State that the half-life of a first-order reaction is independent of the concentration. © Pearson Education Ltd 2009 This document may have been altered from the original
Week 15 Measuring half-lives © Pearson Education Ltd 2009 This document may have been altered from the original
Week 15 Other concentration–time graphs: (a) zero-order, (b) first-order, (c) second-order (a) (b) (c) © Pearson Education Ltd 2009 This document may have been altered from the original 3
Week 15 Deduce the order (0, 1 or 2) with respect to a reactant from a rate–concentration graph. Determine, using the initial rates method, the order (0, 1 or 2) with respect to a reactant. © Pearson Education Ltd 2009 This document may have been altered from the original
Week 15 Orders and rate–concentration graphs: (a) zero-order, (b) first-order, (c) second-order (a) (b) (c) © Pearson Education Ltd 2009 This document may have been altered from the original