Assignment: Equilibrium Case

Assignment: Equilibrium Case

CHEMICAL KINETICS
Assignment Overview
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In the following activity, you will be working with an equilibrium simulation activity and completing the questions on the lab activity below.

Equilibrium

When a reversible reaction reaches equilibrium, the amount or concentration of products and reactants level off due to the fact that the forward reaction changes reactants into products at the same rate that the reverse reaction changes products into reactants.

Stress

When a system at equilibrium is stressed, the chemicals in the closed system respond to the stress and make either more products or reactants. Once again, the concentrations will level off and a new equilibrium with different concentrations will be established.

Shift

The term shift simply indicates the direction (forward or reverse) of a reaction that increases in rate when a stress is applied. For

example, if a reaction shifts to the right as a result of a stress being applied, the forward reaction rate increases and the concentration of the products increase. Logically, the concentration of the reactants must decrease.

What are we doing in the following exercise?

In this activity, your job is to examine how stress (temperature, pressure, and concentration) causes a system at equilibrium to shift and establish a new equilibrium.

You should hypothesize about which direction the equilibrium will shift after you apply the stress.

Keep careful track of what’s going on so that you can look back and discuss what happened.

In this video, Paul Andersen defines the rate of a reaction as the number of reactants that are consumed during a given period of time. The rate of the reaction can be affected by the type of reaction as well as the concentration, pressure, temperature and surface area. Be sure to watch the entire video to watch his discussion of the PhET video you will be working with in this case assignment.
Rate of Reactions. Bozeman Science. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAqX31RRJU on June 8, 2017.

Learn more about Le Chatelier’s Principle in the following video:

Le Chatelier’s Principle. FuseSchool. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zuUV455zFs on June 8, 2017.

For this Case study, you will be completing the word doc assignment below on Equilibrium. Complete the interactive simulation (link provided in document) then answer the questions contained in the word document below.

Once you have completed the answers contained with the Equilibrium assignment below, save the word document and upload the final version to the Case Assignment dropbox area of Module 3.

Equilibrium Case

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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