Observe the graph shown in the figure and answer the following questions: a) What is the order of the reaction? b) What is the slope of the curve? c) Write the relationship between k and t1/2 (half-life period).Graph for the reaction
Answer: (a) First order (b) Slope = k/2.303 (c) t₁/₂ = 0.693/k
Solution
The graph of log[R][R]0 against t is a straight line through the origin — the signature of first order kinetics, since
log[R][R]0=2.303kt
(a) Order = 1. (b) Slope =2.303k. (c) For first order: