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Ruiting Jia 4D
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Postby Ruiting Jia 4D » Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:40 pm

Why is it that when graphing first order reactions, it is either exponentially decaying or linear?
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almaochoa2D
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Re: graph

Postby almaochoa2D » Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:44 pm

It changes based on whether it is integers or in ln form.
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Samantha Kwock 1D
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Re: graph

Postby Samantha Kwock 1D » Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:45 pm

For first order reactions, the graph of the concentration of reactant vs time is exponentially decaying. However, a linear plot is obtained when graphing the natural log of the reactant concentration vs time.
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Lisa Werner 2F
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Re: graph

Postby Lisa Werner 2F » Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:08 pm

the actual concentration of A in first order reactions is exponentially decaying; however, we plot the y axis using ln, which gives us a linear graph with a slope
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