Kinetics and Equilibrium
If you're driving down the highway and want to see how fast you're going, you look down at your speedometer. If you're in a lab and want to see how fast a chemical reaction is going, it's a little more complicated. In this video we'll look at a few factors that influence the speed of chemical reactions. This video is part of the Equilibrium video series. It is often important to determine whether or not a system is at equilibrium, to do this we must understand how a system's equilibrium state is constrained by its boundary and surroundings. Hi, my name is George Zaidan and I'm a graduate of the chemistry department here at MIT. Before watching this video, you should have a basic understanding of chemical equilibrium. After watching this video, you will be able to: Understand how reaction rate is influenced by reactant concentration Explain how reaction rates change as a system establishes equilibrium, AND Predict relative equilibrium concentrat...