ChemistryYears 12–13Kinetics

Chemical kinetics

Understand rates of reaction, collision theory, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and catalysis

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you're baking a cake 🎂. The faster you stir, the quicker the ingredients mix and react!

  2. 2

    What does chemical kinetics study?

  3. 3

    Drag the slider to change the concentration and see how it affects the reaction rate.

  4. 4

    Let's calculate the rate of a reaction that produces 0.5 moles of gas in 10 seconds.

  5. 5

    A reaction produces 2 moles in 5 seconds. What is the rate?

  6. 6

    Increase the temperature on the thermometer to see how it speeds up the reaction.

  7. 7

    Which of these would speed up a reaction the most?

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