MCQ Bank
If the molecules in the reactants collide with enough kinetic energy and this energy is _________the transition state energy, then the reaction occurs and products formed.
- A) higher than
- B) lower than
- C) equal to
- D) none of these
Concept of activation energy is given by_________?
- A) none of these
- B) Michel Faraday
- C) Svante Arrhenius
- D) Boltzmann
The concentration of reactants approaches zero more slowly in a second-order, compared to that in a ________reaction.
- A) first order
- B) zero order
- C) second order
- D) pseudo order
The differential rate law can show us how the_______ of the reaction changes in time, while the integrated rate equation shows how the __________ of species changes over time.
- A) Order, Concentration
- B) Surface, Order
- C) Rate, Order
- D) Rate, Concentration
Formation of double stranded DNA from two complementary strands is
- A) Third order reaction
- B) Order less reaction
- C) Second order reaction
- D) First order reaction
The double bond of ethene consists of two clouds of negative charge corresponding to the σ (sigma) and π (pi)_______________.
- A) atomic orbital
- B) bonding orbitals
- C) molecular orbitals
- D) anti-bonding orbitals
In a pseudo-first-order reaction, if the concentration of the excess reactant is reduced to a minimum value, how does this affect the overall reaction rate?
- A) The reaction rate decreases exponentially
- B) The reaction rate becomes zero
- C) The reaction rate remains constant
- D) The reaction rate decreases linearly
_________indicates the rate of collision and the fraction of collisions with the proper orientation for the reaction to occur.
- A) Boltzmann constant
- B) Arrhenius factor
- C) none of these
- D) Rate constant
ΔGo is the change in Gibbs energy when the reaction happens at ______________.
- A) Transition state
- B) Critical State
- C) 290K
- D) Standard State
If a catalyst is added to the reaction, the activation energy is lowered because
- A) A lower energy transition state is formed
- B) A higher energy transition state is formed
- C) A lower energy transition state is not formed
- D) A normal energy transition state is not formed
Activation energy for a ___________is zero.
- A) low concentration
- B) radical reaction
- C) fast reaction
- D) chain reaction
The activation energy is the ______________that the reactant(s) must acquire before reaching the transition state.
- A) threshold energy
- B) maximum energy
- C) constant energy
- D) critical energy
HCl is ________molecule.
- A) non-polar
- B) partially polar
- C) none of these
- D) highly polar
A reaction with a ________activation energy requires much more energy to reach the transition state.
- A) constant
- B) Large
- C) small
- D) negligible
Thermal energy relates direction to motion at the __________level.
- A) atomic
- B) none of these
- C) sub atomic
- D) Molecular
Which factor primarily influences the rate of a pseudo-first-order reaction?
- A) Catalyst concentration
- B) Concentration of the limiting reactant
- C) Nature of reactants
- D) Temperature
R is the real gas constant with value ________?
- A) 6.430 J/mol K.
- B) 9.614 J/mol K.
- C) 8.581 J/mol K.
- D) 8.314 J/mol K
For a zero-order reaction, how is the rate of the reaction affected when the concentration of the reactant is increased?
- A) Rate increases
- B) Rate remains constant
- C) Rate becomes zero
- D) Rate decreases
If the reaction proceeds faster by adding catalyst, the rate constant (k) _________?
- A) decreases
- B) remain unaffected
- C) Increases
- D) approaches zero
Half life of a first order reaction is ________of its initial concentration.
- A) directly proportional
- B) independent
- C) dependent
- D) inversely proportional