Mistake Master
Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 5 · Step-Through Animation
The One Equation You May Read
You'll learnthat for an elementary step alone, the coefficients equal the rate-law orders.
Topic 5.2 taught you that orders come from experiment and never from the coefficients. This topic is the single exception, it is narrow, and it is the most over-used licence in the unit: an elementary step describes an actual collision, so its coefficients really are its orders. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.
one collision, written down · and the one equation you may read
Before you start
What you're looking at
A three-bay sorter organized by molecularity, beside a card contrasting Topic 5.2's rule with this exception.
The question
When are you allowed to read a rate law's exponents straight off the coefficients?
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