Integrated Rate Laws
Concentration vs. Time, 0th 1st and 2nd Order Reations, 1/2 Life
When assessing how quickly a reaction develops, we compare the concentration of a reactant to time. How long does it take for a reactant to reach a specific concentration? In order to create equations that can be used to calculate this information, the rate laws must be integrated over time. We will not be doing the integration in this class, but we will be looking at the solutions to those integrations. The formulas below are the integrated rate laws. Each order of reaction has a specific equation, although rate laws can have orders that are not whole numbers, we will not be looking at their integrated rate law.
When assessing how quickly a reaction develops, we compare the concentration of a reactant to time. How long does it take for a reactant to reach a specific concentration? In order to create equations that can be used to calculate this information, the rate laws must be integrated over time. We will not be doing the integration in this class, but we will be looking at the solutions to those integrations. The formulas below are the integrated rate laws. Each order of reaction has a specific equation, although rate laws can have orders that are not whole numbers, we will not be looking at their integrated rate law.