CHEMICAL KINETICS -2

Q.1. What is elementary reaction

Q.2. What are pseudo molecular reaction?
Q.3. What is instant rate of reaction?
Q.4. What is average rate of reaction?
Q.5. A first order reaction is found to have rate constant 7.3 x 10 5 Sec -1 . Find the half
life of the reaction. ( 9.49x 10 3 sec )
Q.6. Show that half life is independent of initial concentration for first order reaction.

Q.7. Half life of a first order reaction is 10 min. When will it becomes 20 % completed?

(3.22min.)

Q.8. A first order reaction is 90 % completed in 50 min. Calculate the half life period of the

reaction. (15.05 min. )

Q.9. The first order reaction is 20 % completed in 10 min. When will it becomes 80 %

Completed? ( 72.06 min )

Q.10. Thermal decomposition of a compound is of first order. If 50 % of a compound is

decomposed in 120 min. How long will it take for 90 % of compound to decomposed?

(398.67 min )

Q.11. For a certain reaction it takes 5 min. for the initial concentration of 0.5 mol/L to

become 0.25 mol/L and another 5 min. to become 0.125 mol/L. What is the order of

reaction and why is it so ?

Q.11. Show that the time required for the completion of 3 / 4 of the first order reaction is

twice the time required for completion of half reaction.

Q.12. A piece of wood shows a C 14 activity which is 70 % of the activity found in fresh

wood of today. Calculate the age of piece of wood. ( t ½ of 6 C 14 = 5770 years)

(2969.3 years)
Q.13. A sample of wood has an activity of 2.5 disintegrations per seconds. A freshly cut
wooden tree have an activity of 10 disintegrations per second. Estimate the age of wood
sample. The half -life of C-14 is 5730 years. (11460 years)

Q.14. What is the effect of catalyst on rate of reaction?

Q.15. Write the Arrhenius equation for energy of activation.

Q.16. What will be the effect on a rate of reaction if temperature changes from 267 K to

277 K?

Q.17. The rate of reaction triples when temperature changes from 20 0 C to 50 0 C .

Calculate the activation energy. (28807.14 J)

Q.18. The following reaction is of first order and the rate constant are 3.2 x 10 -4 sec -1 at 600 K

and 1.6 x 10 -2 sec -1 at 1200 K. Calculate the energy of activation for such reaction.

C2H5 I ------> C2 H4 + HI

Q.19. The rate of a particular reaction quadruples when temperature changes from 20 0 C

to 40 0 C . Calculate the energy of activation for such reaction. (52834 J/ mol )

Q.20. A first order reaction is 50 % complete in 30 min. at 27 0 C and 10 min. at 47 0 C .

Calculate the energy of activation for the reaction in KJ/ mol

(43832 j/mol)

Q.21. If rate of following reaction is double when concentration of B is double and become
8 times when concentration of both A and B are double. Determine the order of reaction.

A + B ----> AB

Q.22. For the following reaction the rate law expression is as follows:

A + B ---> Product

Rate = K [ A ] 1/3 [ B ] 2

(a) What is the order of reaction?

(b) What is the unit of rate constant?