Reaction Rates and Equilibrium

Objectives

• Describe how to express the rate of a chemical reaction
• Identify four factors that influence the rate of chemical reactions

Vocabulary: rate - collision theory - activation energy - activated complex - transition state - inhibitor

Objectives

• Describe how the amounts of reactants and products change in a chemical system at equilibrium
• Identify three stresses that can change the equilibrium position of a chemical system
• Explain what the value of Keq indicates about the position of equilibrium

Vocabulary: reversible reaction - chemical equilibrium - Le Chatelier's principle - equilibrium constant

Objectives

• Describe the relationship between solubility product constant and solubility of a compound
• Predict whether precipitation will occur

Vocabulary: solubility product constant - common ion

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