Kinetics of Complex Reactions: Steady-State and Equilibrium Approximations©
Flick Coleman Department of Chemistry Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 02181 United States mail to: wcoleman@wellesley.edu
Abstract
This document contains an exercise in which students can explore the steady-state and equilibrium approximations for a two step series reaction where the first step is an equilibrium. Here students use the Runge-Katta method to solve the differential equations for this reaction type. Completion of the exercises in the article entitled Maxwel Boltzman Distribution would give students the skills necessary to implement the RK method in this document.
Keywords
Audiences: Upper-Division Undergraduate Pedagogies: Computer-Based Learning Domains: Physical Chemistry Topics: Kinetics, Mathematics / Symbolic Mathematics, Mechanisms of Reactions
Documents
File Name Description Software Type Software Version KineticsComplexRxsII.mcd Mathcad Computational Document Mathcad KineticsComplexRxsII.pdf Read-Only Document
Comments to: Flick Coleman at wcoleman@wellesley.edu.
©Copyright Flick Coleman, 1996. All rights reserved. You are welcome to use this document in your own classes but commercial use is not allowed without the permission of the author.