College of Arts & SSciences

Depaartment of C
Chemistry & Earth Scien
nces

Fall 2014; Chem. 3341

Tuttorial # 1
2
21.2(a) Th
he rate of the reacttion A + 2 B 3 C + D was rreported a
as 2.7 mol
dm3 s1.State the rates of form
mation and
d consump
ption of th
he particip
pants.

2
21.4(a) Th
he rate law
w for the reaction in
n Exercise
e 21.2a wa
as found tto
be = kr[A][B
B].What are the units of kr? E
Express th
he rate law
w in terms
s of the
rates of forma
ation and consumpttion of (a)) A, (b) C.

2
21.7(b) Att 400 K, the rate off decompo
osition of a gaseous
s compoun
nd initially
y at a
pres
ssure of 12
2.6 kPa, was
w 9.71 Pa
P s1 whe
en 10.0 pe
er cent ha
ad reacted
d and
1
7.67
7 Pa s wh
hen 20.0 per
p cent had
h
reacte
ed. Determ
mine the o
order of th
he
reac
ction.

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

2
21.9(a) Th
he rate co
onstant forr the first--order deccompositio
on of N2O5 in the re
eaction
5 1
2 N2O5(g) 4 NO2(g
g) + O2(g)) is kr = 3 .38 10
s at 25C. What is the
ha
alf-life of N2O5? Wha
at will be the pressure, initially 500 To
orr, at (a) 50
s, (b) 20 min after in
nitiation off the reacttion?

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

2
21.10(b) A second--order reaction of th
he type A + 2 B P was carrried out in
na
solution
s
th
hat was in
nitially 0.0
050 mol dm
m3 in A a
and 0.030 mol dm33 in
B.
B After 1.0 h the concentration of B h
had fallen to 0.010 m
mol
dm
d 3. (a) Calculate
e the rate constant. (b)What is the halff-life of th
he
reactants?
r
?
Th
here is a typographical error in
i the problem statement. It is
s the concentra
ation of B, not A
A, that has drop
pped to 0.020 m
mol dm-1
affter 1.0 h.

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

2
21.12(a) A reaction
n 2 A P has a sec
cond-orderr rate law with kr = 4.30
104 dm3mol
m 1 s1. Calculate
e the time required for the co
oncentratio
on of A
3
3
to
t change from 0.210 mol dm
m to 0.0
010 mol dm
m .

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

2
21.16(a) The
T
reactiion mecha
anism for the decom
mposition of A2
A2

A + A (fast)

A + B P (slow
w)
involves
i
an
a interme
ediate A. Deduce
D
th e rate law
w for the rreaction in
n two
ways
w
by (a)assumin
ng a pre-e
equilibrium
m and (b) making a steady-state
approxima
a
ation.

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

2
21.19(a) Calculate
C
the fractio
on conden
nsed and tthe degree
e of polym
merization
n at t =
5.0
00 h of a polymer
p
fo
ormed by a stepwisse process
s with kr = 1.39
dm
m3 mol1 s1 and an initial mo
onomer co
oncentratio
on of 1.00
0 102 m
mol
dm
m3.

2
21.20(b) Consider a polymerr formed by
b a chain
n process. By how m
much does
s the
kinetic ch
hain length
h change if the con centration
n of initiattor decreases by
a factor of
o 10.0 and the concentration
n of increa
ases by a factor of 5
5.0?

D
Dr. Abdulilah B
Bani-Yaseen

Theoretical Problem
21.24 Derive an integrated expression for a second-order rate law = k[A][B] for a
reaction of stoichiometry 2 A + 3 B P.

Dr. Abdulilah Bani-Yaseen