Inquiry question: What factors affect equilibrium and how?
Students:
● investigate the effects of temperature, concentration, volume and/or pressure on a system at equilibrium and explain how Le Chatelier’s principle can be used to predict such effects, for example:
– heating cobalt(II) chloride hydrate
– interaction between nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide
– iron(III) thiocyanate and varying concentration of ions (ACSCH095)
● explain the overall observations about equilibrium in terms of the collision theory (ACSCH094)
● examine how activation energy and heat of reaction affect the position of equilibrium
Extract from Chemistry Stage 6 Syllabus © 2017 NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)