General Chemistry II Course
Competencies
Lesson 7: Chemical Kinetics
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Understand the two fundamental requirements for a chemical reaction to
occur…
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Draw reaction coordinate-energy profiles and clearly label activation energies,
and heat gained or lost
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Understand and be able to clearly explain the role of catalysts
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Understand and be able to use fundamental principles to clearly describe
the dependence of reaction rate changes with temperature
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Demonstrated the ability to calculate relative rates of reactions for different
activation energies or temperatures
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Know and be able to use the Arrehenius equation for rate constant determination
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Understand relative impacts of temperature changes on rates for chemical
reactions with low and high activation energies