Assignment No – 1
Chemical Kinetics

Que 1. The rate constant of a reaction is 0.005 molL–1s–1. What is the order of this reaction?

Que 2. In a reaction, 2A → Products, the concentration of A decreases from 0.5 mol L–1 to 0.4 mol L–1 in 10 minutes. Calculate the rate during this interval?

Que3. The rate constant for a first order reaction is 60 s–1. How much time will it take to reduce the initial concentration of the reactant to its 1/16th value?

Que 4. Show that in a first order reaction, time required for completion of 99.9% is 10 times of half-life (t1/2) of the reaction.

Que 5. The rate constants of a reaction at 500 K and 700 K are 0.02s–1 and 0.07s–1 respectively. Calculate the values of Ea and A.

Que 6. A first order reaction takes 40 min for 30% decomposition. Calculate t1/2.

Que 7. (a) The half‐life for radioactive decay of 14C is 5730 years. An archaeological artifact containing wood had only 80% of the 14C found in a living tree. Estimate the age of the sample.
(b) A reaction is first order in A and second order in B.
(i) Write the differential rate equation.
(ii) How is the rate affected on increasing the concentration of B three times?
(iii) How is the rate affected when the concentrations of both A and B are doubled?

Que 8.  MCQS
1. The role of a catalyst is to change ______________.
(i) Gibbs Energy of Reaction. (ii) Enthalpy of Reaction. (iii) Activation Energy of Reaction. (iv) Equilibrium Constant.

2. In the presence of a catalyst, the heat evolved or absorbed during the reaction ___________.
(i) Increases. (ii) Decreases. (iii) Remains Unchanged. (iv) May Increase or Decrease

3. Which of the following statements is not correct about order of a reaction.
(i) The order of a reaction can be a fractional number.
(ii) Order of a reaction is experimentally determined quantity.
(iii) The order of a reaction is always equal to the sum of the stoichiometric coefficients of reactants in the balanced chemical equation for a reaction.
(iv) The order of a reaction is the sum of the powers of molar concentration of the reactants in the rate law expression.

4. Which of the following statements is correct?
(i) The rate of a reaction decreases with passage of time as the concentration of reactants decreases.
(ii) The rate of a reaction is same at any time during the reaction.
(iii) The rate of a reaction is independent of temperature change.
(iv) The rate of a reaction decreases with increase in concentration of reactant(s).

5. A first order reaction is 50% completed in 1.26 × 1014 s. How much time would it take for 100% completion?
(i) 1.26 × 1015s                 (ii) 2.52 × 1014s       (iii) 2.52 × 1028s                 (iv) Infinite

6. Rate law for the reaction A + 2B ⎯→ C is found to be Rate = k [A][B]. Concentration of reactant ‘B’ is doubled, keeping the concentration of ‘A’ constant, the value of rate constant will be______.
(i) The same           (ii) Doubled             (iii) Quadrupled                 (iv) Halved

7. Which of the following statements is incorrect about the collision theory of chemical reaction?
(i) It considers reacting molecules or atoms to be hard spheres and ignores their structural features.
(ii) Number of effective collisions determines the rate of reaction.
(iii) Collision of atoms or molecules possessing sufficient threshold energy results into the product formation.
(iv) Molecules should collide with sufficient threshold energy and proper orientation for the collision to be effective.

8. Which of the following statements are applicable to a balanced chemical equation of an elementary reaction?
(i) Order is same as molecularity.                                (ii) Order is less than the molecularity.
(iii) Order is greater than the molecularity.                   (iv) Molecularity can never be zero.

9. In any unimolecular reaction ______________.
(i) Only one reacting species is involved in the rate determining step.
(ii) The order and the molecularity of slowest step are equal to one.
(iii) The molecularity of the reaction is one and order is zero.
(iv) Both molecularity and order of the reaction are one.

10. For a complex reaction ______________.
(i) Order of overall reaction is same as molecularity of the slowest step.
(ii) Order of overall reaction is less than the molecularity of the slowest step.
(iii) Order of overall reaction is greater than molecularity of the slowest step.
(iv) Molecularity of the slowest step is never zero or non-integer.