A Rate Is a Slope

Unit 4 asked what happens when substances react and how much of each. Unit 5 asks the one question Unit 4 never touched: how fast? And the answer is not a number sitting in the equation — it is the steepness of a curve, which means it changes every second the reaction runs.

8 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · 2A → B · rate = −½ Δ[A]/Δt = Δ[B]/Δt · UNIT 5 OPENER · v1