Instantaneous Rate

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Instantaneous Rate

Postby Giselle Littleton 1F » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:57 pm

How does the instantaneous rate react as the reaction proceeds?

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 805394719 » Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:03 pm

The instantaneous rate decreases as the reaction proceeds because the reactants are consumed and less amount of reactant is left in the reaction which causes the rate of the reaction to decrease since the number of collisions between the reactants decreases and the change in the reactant concentration becomes less which causes the tangent to the plot of its concentration against time to become less steep as the reaction proceeds since the rate has decreased and the plot started to approach a straight vertical line as the reactant concentrations remain unchanged at equilibrium.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Zoya Mulji 1K » Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:04 pm

If you look at the curve graph for the concentration v. time, you can tell that the rate is very quick at first when the concentration is high and decreases as time increases.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Martina » Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:11 pm

The rate is high as the reaction begins because there are more reactants, as the concentration of reactants decreases, the rate decreases.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby AGaeta_2C » Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:13 pm

Instantaneous rate decreases as time increases

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Hussain Chharawalla 1G » Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:17 pm

I believe instantaneous rate becomes 0 when the reaction reaches equilibrium

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Adriana_4F » Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:19 pm

Instantaneous rate decreases as time increases and becomes 0 when equilibrium is reached

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 305385703 » Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:14 am

The instantaneous rate of change decreases as the reaction proceeds. The reaction gets closer to equilibrium and so the rate decreases.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 805422680 » Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:27 am

The rate is very high when the reaction starts and decreases as the reaction continues. This can be determined by the slope of the tangent line at that point of the curve

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Sara Richmond 2K » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:55 am

Instantaneously was rate decreases with time. If you think about it, it makes sense that the reaction would slow as more of the reactants have been used up;.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby John Liang 2I » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:57 am

looking at it graphically, the curve downwards will make the line tangent to the curve less and less steep. since the instantaneous rate is dependent on the slope of the tangent line, it will decrease over time. hope this helps

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Ruby Richter 2L » Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:51 pm

Is there a case where the instantaneous rate increases with time?

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Shivam Rana 1D » Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:21 pm

The instantaneous rate should decrease with time.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby CameronDis2K » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:02 pm

As the reaction proceeds, think of it as a curved graph (seen with the equilibrium reaction graph, with E), the initial rate is very high as there is a readily amount of reactant available to react, and as its used up less reactant is available, so the reaction rate goes down (as reaction rate depends on concentration of reactants), eventually it will level out when all the products are formed (curved graph situation).

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Brian Nguyen 2I » Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:07 pm

The instantaneous rate will decrease over time, as there becomes less reactants to be used up.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Lauren Sarigumba 1K » Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:09 pm

The instantaneous rate is equal to 0 when the reaction is at equilibrium at constant K. It is negative on the left side of K and it is positive on the right side of K, forming a U-shaped graph.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Nicoli Peiris 1B » Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:59 pm

The rate is high as the reaction initially proceeds but as time goes on and the curve becomes flatter the rate decreases.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Joshua Eidam 2A » Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:10 pm

When considering that a reaction is beginning with a high concentration of reactants, the initial instantaneous rate will be very high as there are lots of reactants available; however, as the reaction continues as this high rate, the concentration of reactants will quickly decrease. With fewer reactants, the instantaneous rate will continually decrease with time until equilibrium is reached. At this point, the instantaneous rate will equal zero.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Olivia Smith 2E » Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:47 pm

The instantaneous rate of reaction will decrease as the reaction proceeds given no reactant is added to the reaction

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Muskaan Abdul-Sattar » Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:47 pm

As time proceeds, the instantaneous rate will decrease. It approaches 0 as equilibrium is approached

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Jiapeng Han 1C » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:08 pm

The instantaneous rate is high at the beginning of a reaction because there are many reactants available. As the reaction proceeds, reactants are gradually depleted, so the instantaneous rate decreases. When the reaction ends/reaches equilibrium, the instantaneous rate will become 0.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby aashmi_agrawal_3d » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:21 pm

I think it decreases as the reaction goes on and then approaches 0 at equilibrium.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Juliet Carr 1F » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:25 pm

As the reaction proceeds, the instantaneous rate will decrease. This is due to reactants being used up as the reaction proceeds, so the rate becomes slower as there are less reactants able to form products. Furthermore, if you look at a graph of concentration versus time, the slope of the tangent line at each instantaneous point will get less steep/closer to zero as time progresses.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Namita Shyam 3G » Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:53 pm

As time goes on, the instantaneous rate decreases, until it approaches zero near equilibrium.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby reyvalui_3g » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:52 pm

As time increases the instantaneous rate decreases.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Kelly Ha 1K » Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:55 pm

The instantaneous rate decreases as the reaction proceeds since the more reactants are used up, the less is available to form products.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Jared Limqueco 3E » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:11 pm

Instantaneous rate decreases as time goes and will approach 0 at equilibrium.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Jaden Kwon 3C » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:30 pm

The instantaneous rate of the reactant eventually decreases to 0 as the time progresses for a reaction.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Manseej Khatri 2B » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:35 pm

As the reaction tends towards equilibrium where the net rate of the reaction is 0, the instantaneous rate for the reactant will eventually decrease to 0.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Geethika Janga 1L » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:38 pm

Since there are more reactants when the reaction first begins, the reaction rate will be higher then but as the concentration of the reactants decreases as the reaction proceeds, the instantaneous rate will decrease as well.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Presley Gao 2C » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:52 pm

As the reaction proceeds, the instantaneous rate decreases over time.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Ally M » Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:05 pm

It starts off high as the concentration is the highest, then will decrease eventually to o.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Katherine Li 1A » Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:06 pm

It decreases as the reaction proceeds, because there will be fewer and fewer reactants that can bump into each other and react.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Ashwin Vasudevan 3A » Sat Mar 12, 2022 7:52 pm

Instantaneous rate decreases as time increases and becomes 0 when equilibrium is reached.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 205819952 » Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:44 pm

As time increases, the instantaneous rate decreases

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Uma Patil 2A » Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:53 pm

It will decrease as the reaction proceeds.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 305749341 » Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:56 pm

Average rate is simply an approximation of the change in concentration over a time interval. The instantaneous rate on the other hand is the slope of the tangent line at a specific time interval. It is like reading the speedometer of a car at a specific time.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Cory Poon 3G » Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:51 am

Instantaenous rates will only be the rates for specific times. However for 0th order reactions, ALL instantaneous rates will be the same since the slope is a straight line.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby 405825570 » Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:58 pm

The instantaneous rate decreases as the reaction proceeds--you can see this as the tangent line gets less steep as the time passes. hope this helps:)

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Omar Alkhalili 1J » Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:59 pm

The instantaneous rate decreases over time.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Sarthika Chimmula 3H » Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:01 pm

The instantaneous rate of the reactants decreases over time, no matter the order of the reaction, because reactants get used up over time and products are formed.

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Re: Instantaneous Rate

Postby Matthew Nguyen 2F » Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:50 pm

Instantaneous rate depends on what stage the reaction is in, but generally as time goes on, it ends up leveling out to zero once it reaches equilibrium.


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