Chemical Kinetics (or Reaction Rates)

  1. Handout: Chemical Kinetics Note Packet
  2. Collision Theory of Reactions
    1. Lab: Iodine Clock Reaction
    2. Computer Lab: Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate (needs java 1.4+)
    3. Computer Lab: Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate (needs java 1.4+)
    4. Handout: Questions for above computer labs on reaction rate
    5. Reaction Rates
    6. Demo: Lycopodium power and Iron filings
    7. Homework: Using descriptions of what must be happening on a molecular level, explain why concentrated acids are much more dangerous than ones that have been diluted by water.
  3. Chemical Potential Energy
    1. Demo: Various Types of Potential Energy
    2. Types of Potential Energy
      1. Homework: Pick some specific example and describe how one form of energy is converted other forms of energy. Make sure that potential energy is included in at least one of those steps.
    3. Strong and Weak Bond Overview
    4. Phase Change and Chemical Potential Energy
      1. Computer Lab: Exploring chemical potential energy in phase changes. (needs java 1.4+)
      2. Handout: Questions for the above computer lab.
      3. Lab: Sodium Thiosulfate Lab
      4. Lab: Butane Lab
      5. In class assignment: Design a refrigerator based on your understanding of potential energy in phase changes.
      6. Lab: Ice to Steam Lab
      7. Homework: Chemical Potential Energy and Phase Changes
      8. The nature of boiling
        1. Lab: Warm water in syringe experiment
        2. Demo: Low Pressure Boiling
        3. Homework: Write up ideas of what is happening in the low pressure boiling demo
    5. Chemical Reactions and Potential Energy
      1. Handout: Energy Storage in Your Body
      2. Computer Lab: Chemical Potential Energy and Covalent Bond Formation (needs java 1.4+)
      3. Handout: Questions for the above computer lab.
      4. Homework: Chemical Potential Energy in Chemical Reactions
    6. Activation Energy
      1. Demo: Making HCl, H2O, and NI3
      2. Film: Activation Energy and Bonding
      3. Computer Lab: Exploring Potential Energy Curves in Reactions (needs java 1.4+)
      4. Homework: Draw potential energy curves for the following situations:
        1. an exothermic reaction that is likely to be completely spontaneous
        2. a reaction which would require a constant input of energy to complete
        3. an exothermic reaction with a high activation energy
        4. an endothermic reaction with a low activation energy
        5. a reaction in which the reactants and products contain approximately but not exactly the same chemical potential energy.
    7. Catalysts
      1. Homework: Activation Energy
  4. Equilibrium
    1. Lab: Penny Lab
    2. Computer Lab: Chemical Equilibrium and LeChetalier
    3. Chemical Equilibrium
    4. Le Chetalier's Principle
      1. Demo: NO2 <--> N2O4 tubes
      2. Lab: Le Chetalier part 1 and 2
      3. Film: The Harber Process
  5. Handout: Chemical Kinetic Review with Answers