CHEMICAL KINETICS

1. Define rate, rate constant and half life of a reaction. Mention their units for 1st order reaction.
2. Define activation energy of a chemical reaction.
3. Will the molecularity of a zero order reaction be zero?
4. A first order never reaches to completion. Explain why?
5. At a specific temperature, why does the rate of a reaction increase with increase in the
concentration of the reactant?
6. Write the unit of rate constant for zero order reaction.
7. Show the different graphical representation for a zero order reaction and 1st order reaction:
i) Reaction rate vs reactant concentration,
ii) [A] vs t
iii) t1/2 vs [A]0 .
8. Can the order and molecularity be same for a reaction?
9. Define collision frequency.
10. List the factors on which rate of chemical reaction depends.
11. Oxidation of ammonia takes place as follows:
4NH3(g) + 5O2(g) → 4NO(g) +6H2O(g). In an experiment rate of formation NO(g) was 6.4×10-4
mol.L-1.S-1. Determine the rate at which NH3(g) gets consumed and steam is formed.
12. Write the differences between order and molecularity of reaction.
13. Define pseudo1storder reaction. Give example.
14. Give an example of fraction order reaction.
15. The reaction between NO(g) and Cl2(g) produces NOCl(g) . The following data are obtained at
295K.:
[Cl2](M) [NO](M) Initial rate( mol.L-1.s-1)
0.05 0.05 1.0×10-3
0.15 0.05 3.0×10-3
0.05 0.15 9.0×10-3
i) Calculate the order of the reaction with respect to NO and Cl2.
ii) Calculate the rate constant of the reaction.
iii) If the concentration of Cl2 and NO 0.2 M and 0.3M respectively, calculate the rate of the reaction.
16. A + 2B → C + D ; the rate of the reaction = K[A][B]2, How can the reaction be converted to (i)
pseudo1storder reaction (ii) paesuo2ndorder reaction?
17. A 1st order reaction takes 40 minutes for 30% decomposition. Calculate its half life.
18. The decomposition of NH3 on platinum surface is a zero order order reaction. What are the rates
of productions of N2 and H2 if k = 2.5 x 10-4mol.L-1s-1?
19. A first reaction has a rate constant of 0.0051min-1 . If we begin with 0.1 M concentration ofvthe
reactant, what concentration will remain in the solution after 3 hours?
20. Show that for any first reaction the time required for the completion of 99.9% of the reaction is
10 times of the half life of the reaction.
21. Show that for any first reaction the time required for the completion of 75% of the reaction is
two times of the half life of the reaction.
22. Half life of a first order reaction is 15 min. Calculate the time for 80% completion of the reaction.
If the initial concentration of the reactant is doubled, calculate the time taken for 80% completion of
the reaction. Give reason.
23. Nitrogen peroxide decomposes as follows:
N2O5(g)→ 4NO2(g) + O2(g). The first order reaction was allowed to proceed at 400C and the data
below were collected:
 Time(min) 0 20 40 60 80
[N2O5](M) 0.4000 0.289 0.209 0.151 0.109
i) Calculate the rate constant. ii)What will be the concentration of N2O5 after 100 minutes? iii)
Calculate the initial rate of the reaction.
24. For a decomposition reaction the values of the rate constant, k at two differwnt temperatures
are given below: k1= 2.15 X 10-8Lmol-1s-1 at 650K , k2= 2.39 X 10-7Lmol-1s-1 at 700K. Calculate the
activation energy for the reaction.
25. The decomposition of H2O2 is a first order reaction . The rate constant if the reaction can be
expressed as log k = 14.34 – 1.25x104/T. Calculate the activation energy of the reaction. At what
temperature does the half life of the reaction become 256min?
26. At 250C and 450C a first order reaction takes 30 minutes and 10 minutes respectively to reach
50% completion. Calculate the activation energy. If ΔH=-40kJ/mol, calculate the activation energy of
backward reaction.
27. The following data were obtained during the first order thermal decomposition of SO2Cl2 at a
constant volume , SO2Cl2(g) → SO2(g) + Cl2(g)
Experiment Time Total pressure(atm)
1 0 0.5
2 100 0.6
Calculate the rate of the reaction when total pressure is 0.65 atm.
28. The rate of a reaction quadruples when the temperature changes from 293K to 313K . Calculate
the activation energy for the reaction.
29. At 400K, the decomposition of gaseous Cl2O7 to Cl2(g) and O2(g) follows first order kinetics.
(i) After 55 s at 400K, the pressure of Cl2O7 falls from 0.062 to 0.044atm. Calculate k.
(ii) Calculate the pressure of Cl2O7 at 100 s after the beginning of the decomposition.
29. The following data were obtained during the first order thermal decomposition of N2O5 at
constant volume: N2O5(g)→ 4NO2(g) + O2(g)
Sl no. Time(sec) Total pressure(atm)
1 0 0.5
2 100 0.512
Calculate the rate constant.
30. To calculate the rate of decomposition of H2O2 in aqueous solution, a certain volume of aqueous
solution of H2O2 is pipetted out and titrated against KMnO4 at different interval. The observations
are given below:
Time(sec) 0 300 600 900
Volume of 22.8 17.6 13.8 10.6
KMnO4(mL)