Lesson 7: Chemical Kinetics

• Understand the two fundamental requirements for a chemical reaction to occur…
• Draw reaction coordinate-energy profiles and clearly label activation energies, and heat gained or lost
• Understand and be able to clearly explain the role of catalysts
• Understand and be able to use fundamental principles to clearly describe the dependence of reaction rate changes with temperature
• Demonstrated the ability to calculate relative rates of reactions for different activation energies or temperatures
• Know and be able to use the Arrehenius equation for rate constant determination
• Understand relative impacts of temperature changes on rates for chemical reactions with low and high activation energies