Chapter 13 - Kinetics: The Study of Rates of Reaction. The student should be able to:

1. State and generally describe the five factors that affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
2. Describe how the rate of a reaction is related to the rate of disappearance of a reactant or formation of a product.
3. Explain how to obtain the data needed for a kinetic study from the results of simple chemical analyses.
4. Establish the exact rate of a chemical reaction from the slope of a tangent line to the concentration vs time graph. Also explain how to determine the initial rate.
5. State the meaning of reaction order and use the rate law to determine the order of a reaction.
6. Apply the method of initial rates to determine the rate law for a reaction.
7. Use the rate law and rate data to calculate a rate constant, k, or use the rate law and rate constant to calculate rate data.
8. Apply the integrated rate law. Establish, through rate data, equations, and graphs, whether a reaction is zero order, first order, or second order.
9. Determine the half-life of a reaction that is zero order, first order or second order.
10. Describe the collision theory of reaction, stating the factors that affect collision frequency and those that lead to favorable collisions.
11. Explain the concept of activation energy.
12. Show how transition-state theory extends the theoretical explanation of chemical kinetics.
13. Use the Arrhenius equation in calculations involving rate constants, temperatures, and activation energies.
14. Describe the reaction mechanism, and distinguish between elementary processes and a net chemical reaction.
15. Derive the rate law from a simple mechanism with the concepts of steady-statey condition and rate-determining step.
16. Describe the role of a catalyst and explain the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.