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At the completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Explain how various factors (temperature, agitation, concentration, surface area, and catalysts) affect the rate of a chemical reaction as well as the manner in which this occurs.
2. Interpret a potential energy diagram and explain how it changes with the presence of a catalyst.
3. Differentiate between endothermic and exothermic reactions.
4. Write & solve for the Keq expression for a chemical reaction/process and use it to predict whether the reaction favors the reactants or the products.
5. Explain LeChatelier’s principle and predict what will happen to the concentrations of all components in the chemical reaction when a system at equilibrium is subjected to a stress.
6. Predict if the Keq increases, decreases, or remains the same once the shift in equilibrium has been reestablished.
7. Describe and explain the law of conservation of energy.
8. Describe entropy and explain how it is used to drive a reaction.
9. Describe enthalpy and explain how it is used to drive a reaction.
10. Calculate Gibbs’ free energy and use the value to determine if a reaction is spontaneous (thermodynamically favored) or non-spontaneous.
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