CBSE TEST PAPER-02

CLASS - XII CHEMISTRY (Chemical Kinetics)

[ANSWERS]

Topic: - Factors affecting rate of a reaction , order and molecularity of a reaction.

1.

No. rate of a reaction is not always constant. It depends on many factors such as
concentration, temperature etc.

2.

The factors affecting rate of a reaction are

a) Concentration of reactants
b) Temperature
c) Catalyst

3.

The rate law is the expression in which rate is given in terms of molar concentration
of reactants with each term raised to some power ,which may or may not be same as
the stoichiometric coefficient of the reacting species in a balanced chemical equation.

4.

No, the rate law can not be predicted by merely looking at the balanced chemical
equation but must be determined experimentally.

5.

i) Order of a reaction.
The sum of powers of the concentration of the reactants in the rate law expression is
called order of that reaction.
ii) Molecularity of a reaction.
The number of reacting species which must collide simultaneously in order to bring
about a chemical reaction is called molecularity of a reaction.

6.

The reactions taking place in one step are called elementary reactions whereas when a
sequence of elementary reactions , called mechanism , gives us the product , it is called
complex reaction.

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Order

Molecularity

7.
i) it is an experimental parameter
and cannot be predicted theoretically.

i) It can be predicted from equation

theoretically

ii) It can be zero.

ii) It cannot be zero.

iii) It can be a whole number as well as a

fraction.

iii) It cannot be a fraction. It can only be

a whole number.

8.

Rate = k[A]x [B]y

Order = x +y
5 3
50 order = + = 4.
2 2
i.e; reaction is fourth order reaction.

9.

i) First order reaction

Units of rate constant , k = sec-1
ii) For nth order reaction
the units of rate constant, k = mol(1-n) (n-1)Ls-1

10.

A+B C+D
Rate [A]x
Rate = 1 when [A] = 1
Rate = 2
when [A] = 2
Dividing equation 2) by 1)

---------- 1)
-----------2)

2 ( 2)

1 1x
21 (2) x
x

x=1
The reaction is first order reaction.

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