UNIT 3 CHEMISTRY

Open system

Can exchange energy and matter

Closed system

Can exchange only energy

Equilibrium

When the rate of the forward reaction is the same as the rate of reverse reaction, resulting in constant concentrations of reactants and products.

Position of Equilibrium

The relative amounts of reactants and product at equilibrium

Factors that affect position of equilibrium

• adding or removing a reactant or product

• changing the pressure by changing the volume of the sealed container (for equilibria involving gases)

• dilution (for equilibria in solution)

• changing the temperature.

What is Le Chatelier principle

If an equilibrium system is subjected to change, the system will shift to partially oppose the change

Explain what would happen if you add a product or reactant (collision theory)

When the concentration increases, the amount of collision increases, speeding up the forward reaction, breaking equilibrium. Then, as the concentration of the product increases the reactant decreases thus the rate of the forward reaction rate decreases and the rate of the reverse reaction increases until they become equal again

What is the Gas Particles and Pressure relation in equilibrium context

Gas Particles increase - Pressure increase

Gas Particles decrease - Pressure decrease

How does a system react to a change in pressure

A system will react to a change in pressure by partially opposing the change by reducing or increasing the pressure. The reaction will move left or right.

If a change in pressure occurs, what is something you need to remember that is important (related to the change after intial equillirbum)

If the pressure decreases, all reactants and products will go down in concentration and will be less than what the equilibrium concentrations were regardless after the shift.

Same for if pressure increase, all reactants and products concentration will be higher than the initial equillbirum even after the shift

How does a system react to change in pressure when the gas particles are even on both sides of the reaction

a change in pressure will not shift the position of equilibrium. , the system is unable to oppose the change applied and there is no overall net reaction.

How does a system react to a change in Dilution

Dilution by water reduces the number of particles per volume. This results in the reaction moving to the side that produces greater number of particles to bring back equilibrium as stated by le chatlier principle. However, the concentration decreases instantaneously, and will be lower even after equilibrium

If H20 is a liquid or solvent is it included in the KC

No

On a graph, dilution intialy goes down in what typa way

Straight down, immediate change

How does a system react to change in temperature

• net reverse reaction (fewer products) for exothermic reactions

• net forward reaction (more products) for endothermic reactions.

  Main principle is that when temperature is increased - the reaction will want to absorb energy to counteract the increase in energy

• When temperature is increased, reaction will want to produce and energy (exothermic)

The Kc value is only affected by what factor

Temperature

If the reaction quotient is greater than the Kc the system

shifts to the left to acheieve equillbirum, more reactants are formed

If the reaction quotient is less than the Kc the system

the system ‘shifts to the right’ to achieve equilibrium and more products are formed

If you have a reaction and its equilibrium, what do you do to the reverse reaction’s equillibrum

you do the reciprocal, 1/

If the coefficient of the equation is doubled, what happens to the Kc value

value of Kc is squared

If the coefficients of the equation is halved, what happens to the Kc value

value of Kc is square rooted

For an exothermic reaction, what happens to the Kc value if temperature increases

The Kc value decreases due to the shift of equilibrium to the left, favoring the reactants.

For an endothermic reaction, what happens to the Kc value if temperature increases

The Kc value increases because the equilibrium shifts to the right, favoring the products.

What happens to the rate graph curve when there is a Le Chatelier’s response such as temperature change

The concentrations are changing smoothly

What happens to the graph curve when there is a change in volume/pressure

All of the species will either initially drop or increase very sharply

What happens to the concentrations of a system when the volume is halved

The concentrations of all species will double

what happens when Ionic compounds such as NaOH and BrOH are added in solution of an equilibrum reaction

The ionic compounds dissasociates into its respective elements, from here you can work out where it will go and then see the shift in equiullirbum

How to calculate the average rate of reaction

by measuring the change in concentration of a reactant or product over a specific time period.

Important information regarding adding a solution in an equiulilburm reaction

Identify Whether the Solution Will Dissociate and Produce an Acid or Base

See Whether the Reaction Involves an Acid or Base that It Will React With

When can you use ICE tables

ICE tables can be used to calculate the concentrations of reactants and products at equilibrium in a chemical reaction, particularly when initial concentrations and changes in concentration are known.

A concentrated acid or base contains…

more moles of solute per litre than a dilute acid or base

In context of acid and bases, “strong” and “weak” refer to…

the relative tendency to accept or donate protons

The stronger an acid,

the weaker its conjugate base.

The stronger a base

The weaker its conjugate acid

at 25C what is the concentration of H30 and OH in neutral solutions/pure water

[H3O+] = [OH−] = 10−7 mol L−1

at 25C what is the concentration of H30 and OH in acid solutions

[H3O+] > 10−7 mol and [OH−] < 10−7 mol

at 25C what is the concentration of H30 and OH in basic solutions

[H3O+] <10−7 mol and [OH−] > 10−7 mol

collision theory for an endothermic reaction

Remember that, for an equilibrium

system, an increase in temperature

increases the proportion of molecules

with the necessary energy to overcome

the activation energy barrier for the

endothermic reaction to a greater

extent than for the exothermic reaction,

and so the endothermic reaction will be

favoured