How to Calculate Half-Life for Second Order Reactions

Описание: *I recommend watching this in x1.25 - 1.5 speed

In this video we go over how to calculate the half life of second order reactions. These are usually structured as "what is the [concentration of reactant] after __ (time)", "starting with [reactant concentration], calculate the [reactant concentration unknown] after __ seconds/minutes/hours/days/years", or simply, "what is the half life of [reactant concentration]".

As always, its worth remembering that when these are graphed, the y axis variable will be 1/[A]. As a quick refresher, for first order half-life calculations, the y-axis variable will be the natural log of [A] (ln[A]) and for zero order half life calculations the y-axis variable is simply [A].



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