Kinetics and Thermodynamics

[Jose Torres]

How do you know when a question is pertaining to either kinetics or thermodynamics? Is the end result of one the same thing as the other, or even similar?

[ian_haliburton_1f]

The equation for the equilibrium constant, which is all we’ve been working with so far, can be derived to the same point using either a kinetic consideration or a thermodynamic consideration. There is a thorough explanation of what these both entail at the end of topic 5G, but I believe the technicalities are only relevant to later parts of the class.