The Maxwell - Boltzmann distribution curve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEYUjobUUY

What is the maxwell boltzmann distribution

If we measure the energy of all the molecules in a gas , liquid or solution, we get this curve

The curve starts at the origin

Some molecules have very high energy , the curve does not touch the x axis at high energies, so theres no max energy that molecules could have

Area under the curve tells us the total number of molecules in the system

Where is the most probably energy

Directly under the peak of the curve, and the mean energy is slightly to the right of this, thats because particles at very high energies skew the mean to the right.

Whats another way to increase rate of reaction

Increase the temp

Here T2 represents a higher temp than T1

At higher temps ,there are more particles with very high energies,

At high temps, curve shifts to right, but height of peak falls as number of molecules never changed.

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