HSC Chemistry 27 October 2023
IQ1: What energy changes occur in chemical reactions?
Students:
● conduct practical investigations to measure temperature changes in examples of endothermic and exothermic reactions, including:
– combustion
– dissociation of ionic substances in aqueous solution (ACSCH018, ACSCH037)
● investigate enthalpy changes in reactions using calorimetry and 𝑞 = 𝑚𝑐𝛥𝑇 (heat capacity formula) to calculate, analyse and compare experimental results with reliable secondary-sourced data, and to explain any differences
● construct energy profile diagrams to represent and analyse the enthalpy changes and activation energy associated with a chemical reaction (ACSCH072)
This is the practical for this lesson.
Desmos is an interactive graph generator, which may also be used to develop energy profile diagrams.
Module 3 IQ3 already introduced the terms endo and exothermic and energy profile diagrams when discussing activation energy.
The new part here is about relating it to dissolution reactions.