Friday, February 14, 2014

Chemical Kinetics #4 -- Reaction pathways, Activation Energy, and Kinetic Reaction Control

Watch the following videos to help understand reaction pathways and activation energy.  The third video helps to explain how catalysts work and the difference between kinetics and thermodynamics.







Chemical Kinetics #3 -- Rate Limiting Step

Watch the following video to help understand what the rate determining step of a reaction is and how it can be used to determine a reaction mechanism.


Chemical Kinetics #2 -- Rate Laws and Rate Constants

Watch the following videos to help understand how to create a rate law for a reaction and how to determine the rate constant from a rate law.











Chemical Kinetics #1 -- Overview and Ways to affect speed of reaction

Watch the following videos to get a good overview of the topics in the Kinetics unit and the specific of how to affect the rate of reactions.