Rate Laws

A few exponential questions to start:
(1) 2, to what exponent is 4?  [Answer 2]
(2) 2, to what exponent is 8? [Answer 3]
(3) 2, to what exponent is 2? [Answer 1]
(4) 2, to what exponent is 1? [Answer 0]

The above is the kind of mathematical thinking that is required for this next portion of the unit.

After the rate law lesson you should be able to produce a specific rate law similar to the following general rate law:
rate = k [A]x [B]y [C]z
where k is a constant with its own units and x, y, z are all exponents (The link below shows the format with all its exponential glory.)

The following link will provide some additional insight into rate laws. I would not spend a great deal of time focusing on the various graphs. The interpreation of the chart data to arrive at a rate law is where the lesson on rate laws ends up.
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c123/coneffec.html

That is all for today. Q: What did the ocean say to the penguin? A: Nothing it just waved. Q: How does a penguin build its house? A: Igloos it together.