Chapter 5.2
Concentration Over Time: Integrated Rate Laws and Half-Life
A first-order reaction loses half of what is left in the same time, every time, whether it starts with a ton or a gram. Plot the data three ways and the reaction picks the straight line itself.
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By the end
- 01Identify the order of a reaction from which plot of concentration versus time is linear
- 02Find the rate constant from the slope of the linearized plot
- 03Apply the zeroth-, first-, and second-order integrated rate laws
- 04Compute a first-order half-life and apply it to radioactive decay