Chemical kinetics

CHEMISTRY

Class 12

Time: 90min                                                                                  Max. Marks: 35

Section-A Question 1 to 8 are multiple choice questions. Only one of the choices is correct. Select and write the correct choice as well as the answer to these questions.

1.            The half life Pd of a 1st order reaction is 60minutes the percentage of reactant left after 240 minutes.

(a) 12.5% (b) 25%                  (c) 6.25%               (d) 3.75%

2.            The graph which represents zero order

3.            The role of a catalyst in a reaction is

(a) To accelerate the rate of reaction

(b) To retard the rate of reaction

(c) To lower the activation energy  

(d) None

4.            A first order reaction has a rate constant 1.15sec-1 if 5gm of reactant reduced to 3gm. The time period required is 

(a) 250 sec               (b) 300 sec           

(c) 400sec                   (d) 275 sec

5.            In a reaction A + B product

[A]                     [B]               rate – (mol litre-1sec-1)    

0.20                  0.30            5.0710-5

0.20                  0.10            5.0710-5

0.40                  0.05            1.4310-3

On the basis of above data find order of reaction

(a)   3/2 (b) 2/3 (c) 5/2         (c) ½

6. If in a chemical reaction A + B + C product when A is 1st order B in IInd order and C in zero order if concern of each reactant is doubled then rate of reaction becomes

(a) r2 = 4r1                                  (b) r2 = 8r1             

(c) r2 = 16r1                                    (d) r2 = 2r1 

7. Molecularity of reaction is applicable for only

(a) elementary reactions             (b) complex reaction

(c) Parallel reactions                               (d) Consecutive reaction

8. For which part of completion of 1st of order of reaction is ten times of half life period

(a) 90%                  (b) 99%      (c) 99.9%               (d) 99.99%

Section-B Question No. 9 to 11 are very short answer questions carrying 2 marks each.

9. Define the following:

a) Activation Energy

b) Threshold energy

10.   Difference between rate of reaction and rate constant of reaction.

11.   Write units of rate constants for zero order and for the second order reactions if the concentration is expressed in mol L-1 and time in second.

Section-C Question No. 12 to 15 are short answer questions, carrying 3 marks each.

12.    The rate constant of a first order reaction becomes 5 times when the temperature is raised from 350K to 400K. Calculate the activation energy for the reaction.

13.   How will the rate of reaction be affected when

i) Surface area of reactant is reduced,

ii) Catalyst is added in a reversible reaction, and

iii)   Temperature of the reaction is increased?

14.   A reaction is first order in A and second 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 affecter when the concentration of both A and B are doubled.

15.   Account for the following:

i) The rate of a reaction does not remain constant throughout the course of reaction.

ii) The boiling of an egg or cooking of rice is an open vessel takes more time in hilly areas.

iii)   In some cases it is fond that a large number of colliding molecules have energy more than the threshold value, yet the reaction is slow.

Section D Question No. 16 is a case-based/data -based question carrying 4 marks.

16. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

The rate of a chemical reaction is expressed either in terms of decrease in the concentration of reactants or increase in the concentration of a product per unit time. Rate of the reaction depends upon the nature of reactants, concentration of reactants, temperature, presence of catalyst, surface area of the reactants and presence of light. Rate of reaction is directly related to the concentration of reactant. Rate law states that the rate of reaction depends upon the concentration terms on which the rate of reaction actually depends, as observed experimentally. The sum of powers of the concentration of the reactants in the Rate law expression is called order of reaction while the number of reacting species taking part in an elementary reaction which must collide simultaneously in order to bring about a chemical reaction is called molecularity of the reaction. Answer the following questions:

(a) (i) What is a rate determining step?

(ii) Define complezx reaction.

(b) What is the effect of temperature on the rate constant of a reaction?

OR,

Why is molecularity applicable only for elementary reactions whereas order is applicable for elementary as well as complex reactions?

(c) The conversion of molecule X to Y follows second-order kinetics. If the concentration of X is increased 3 times, how will it affect the rate of formation of Y?

Section-E Question No. 17 is a long answer type question carrying 5 marks.

17. (a) Define order of reaction. How does order of a reaction differ from molecularity for a complex reaction?

(b) A first order reaction is 50% complete in 25 minutes. Calculate the time for 80% completion of the reaction.

OR,

Derive an expression for rate constant of first order reaction.