Chapter 3: Rate Laws
Deriving -rA:
| The forward rate is: |
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| And the reverse rate law is: |
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| The net rate for species A is the sum of the forward and reverse rate laws: |
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| Substituting for rfor and rrev: |
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| The forward rate is: |
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| And the reverse rate law is: |
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| The net rate for species A is the sum of the forward and reverse rate laws: |
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| Substituting for rfor and rrev: |
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