Thursday, January 20, 2011
Thurs-Day 1
Physics - took part I of our quarterly exam.
AP Chem - we did a few examples relating the experimentally determined rate laws to the rate determining step of a proposed reaction mechanism.
We then went on (not in the 4/5 class, though) to see how rate law EXPONENTS are deduced from experimental data that show the effect of varying concentration of one reactant (one variable per experiment, the other reactant(s) concentration(s) is/are kept the same/controlled) on the reaction rate.
AP Chem - we did a few examples relating the experimentally determined rate laws to the rate determining step of a proposed reaction mechanism.
We then went on (not in the 4/5 class, though) to see how rate law EXPONENTS are deduced from experimental data that show the effect of varying concentration of one reactant (one variable per experiment, the other reactant(s) concentration(s) is/are kept the same/controlled) on the reaction rate.