The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Department of Chemistry

CHEM 1030 General Chemistry II Spring 2020

Homework 2 (Ch11)
- Homework is for practice only. There is no need to hand in your work.
- Please contact Elaine WONG (E-mail: wylelaine@ust.hk; Office: Rm.4524 near Lift 25−26 on 4/F)
for any inquiries regarding this chapter and homework.

1. The average rate of disappearance of ozone in the reaction is found to be 9.18 ×

10–3 atm over a certain interval of time. What is the rate of appearance of O2 during
this interval?.

2. For the reaction 2N2O5(g) → 4NO2(g) + O2(g), the following data were collected:

t (minutes) [N2O5] (mol/L)

0. 1.24 × 10–2

10. 0.92 × 10–2

20. 0.68 × 10–2

30. 0.50 × 10–2

40. 0.37 × 10–2

50. 0.28 × 10–2

70. 0.15 × 10–2

The concentration N2O5 at 100 minutes will be approximately:

The half-life of this reaction is approximately:

3. The reaction A → B + C is known to be zero order in A with a rate constant of 5.0

× 10–2 mol/L·s at 25°C. An experiment was run at 25°C where [A]0 = 1.0 × 10–3
M. What is the concentration of B after 5 × 10–3 sec?

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4. The reaction 3NO → N2O + NO2 is found to obey the rate law, Rate = k[NO]2. If
the first half-life of the reaction is found to be 2.0 s, what is the length of the fourth
half-life?

5. The reaction 2NO2 2NO + O2 obeys the rate law:

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= (1.4 x 10-2 mol-1 dm3 s-1) [NO2]2 at 500K.
If the initial concentration of NO2 is 1.00 M, how long will it take for the [NO2] to
decrease to 17.7% of its initial value?

6. A certain reaction has the following general form:

aA bB
At a particular temperature and [A]0 = 2.00 × 10-2 M, concentration versus time data were
collected for this reaction, and a plot of ln[A] versus time resulted in a straight line with a
slope value of -2.97 × 10-2 min-1.

a. Determine the rate law, the integrated rate law, and the value of the rate constant
for this reaction.

b. Calculate the half-life for this reaction.

c. How much time is required for the concentration of A decrease to 2.50 × 10-3 M?

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7. A reaction represented by the equation was studied at a specific temperature and
the following data were collected:
3O2 (g) → 2O3 (g)

Time (seconds) Total pressure (atm)

0 1.000

46.89 0.9500

98.82 0.9033

137.9 0.8733

200.0 0.8333

286.9 0.7900

337.9 0.7700

511.3 0.7233

What is the value of the rate constant?

8. Determine (a) the rate equation and (b) the rate constant for the hypothetical
reaction A + B → C given the following initial concentrations and initial rate data.
[A]0 [B]0 Initial Rate
Run # (mol/L) (mol/L) (mol/L·s)
(1) 0.100 0.100 0.18
(2) 0.100 0.200 0.36
(3) 0.200 0.200 1.44

9. For the second-order reaction NO(g) + O3(g) → NO2(g) + O2(g), the rate constant
has been measured to be 1.08 × 107 M–1 s–1 at 298 K and the activation energy
has been measured to be 11.4 kJ/mol over the temperature range 195 K to 304
K. What is the rate constant at 243 K? (R = 8.3145 J K–1 mol–1)

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10. Indentify a to e with different properties in the potential energy diagram shown
below.
c