i need some help in that how can we explain the effect of temperature change on the rate of reaction in terms of boltzman distributions?

Essentially, the higher temperatures will give energies more molecules, shifting them to the right of the Boltzman distribution.

i would appreciate if you tell me what basically is boltzman distribution?

 

thnx 4 the answer though, i would certainly put on my thinking cap on that 1 and figure out how exactly it shifts to the right.

 

thnx

Boltzmann distribution is statistical distribution of energies. Temperature just represents the statistical average energy of the molecules in a sample. Boltzmann distribution considers how large % of the population that has other energies, lower or higer.

 

Here are a couple of related links

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_distribution

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/basicrates/introduction.html#top

 

/Fredrik

Higher temperature implies that a large % of the molecules have sufficient energy to exceed the activation energy, thus speeding the overall reaction rate.

 

How the equilibrium point reacts to temperature though, is a different story than kinetics.

 

/Fredrik

fedrik thnx 4 that i think i have almost got the concept and my answer as well which was the effect of temperature change on reaction rate in terms of boltzman distribution.