Question

The activation energy Ea for a particular reaction is 50.0 kJ/mol. How

Answer 1

Answer:

About two times faster.

Explanation:

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In this case, since we need a k2/k1 ratio to figure out the increase in the reaction rate for a chemical process, we need to use the following version of the Arrhenius equation:

$ln(\frac{k_2}{k_1} )=-\frac{Ea}{R}(\frac{1}{T_2} -\frac{1}{T_1} )$

Thus, we plug in Ea, R and the temperatures to obtain:

$ln(\frac{k_2}{k_1} )=-\frac{50,000J/mol}{8.314J/mol*K}(\frac{1}{322K} -\frac{1}{310.0K} ) \\\\ln(\frac{k_2}{k_1} )=0.723$

Now, we use exponential to obtain:

$\frac{k_2}{k_1} =exp(0.723)\\\\\frac{k_2}{k_1}=2.1$

Thus, we infer that the reaction is about two times faster.

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