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Home Concept Builders Kinetics and Equilibrium

Concept Builders - Kinetics and Equilibrium

It's good to find balance in life, as well as in Chemistry. These Concept Builders will help you be able to balance your chemical reactions and understand how equilibrium is reached.

Activities

Collision Model of Reaction Rates

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To identify the variables that affect reaction rate and to explain the effects using the Collision Model of reaction rates.

Equilibrium Calculations

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To use an equlibrium constant expression to determine the equilibrium constant value or the value of the concentration of a reactant or product at equilibrium.

The Equilibrium Concept

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To identify the conditions that exist at equilibrium, to comprehend the meaning of he equilibrium concept (K), and to use the K value to predict the direction a reaction proceeds to reach equilibrium.

Equilibrium ICE Tables

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To learn how to set up an ICE table and then use it to relate initial concentrations of reactants and products to the equilibrium constant.

Equilibrium Constant Expression

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To use the Law of Mass Action in order to identify the equilibrium constant expression for a given chemical equation.

LeChatelier's Principle

🞋︎ Learning Goal: To identify the effect that a stress has upon a system that is at equilibrium.