The Plot That Comes Out Straight

Topic 5.2 said the orders come from experiment. Here is the experiment. You watch one reactant disappear, you bend the data three different ways, and exactly one of them lands on a straight line. That plot names the order — and its slope hands you k. The catch is the whole reason this topic is hard: the wrong plot can look straight too.

8 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · A → PRODUCTS · [A]₀ = 0.100 M · TEST ALL THREE · v1