Representing Enthalpy Changes Other
Representing Enthalpy Changes Other
Representing Enthalpy Changes Other
Enthalpy Change - H
Bonds Broken Bonds Made
Energy absorbed Energy released
1) Enthalpy Diagrams:
-great to help you visualize the relative enthalpies of reactants and products and see
whether the reaction is endothermic or exothermic.
-y-axis (enthalpy axis) has no zero point …. This is because only changes in enthalpy are
measured
-no x-axis (really) as the enthalpy change of a system depends on the initial and final
states of the system and is not affected by the process….however we do represent this as
“reaction progression” though…
-reactants have a larger enthalpy than products and therefore drawn above the products.
-arrow representing enthalpy change points downward.
1) Enthalpy Diagrams:
-great to help you visualize the relative enthalpies of reactants and products and see
whether the reaction is endothermic or exothermic.
-y-axis represents potential energy of the system.
no x axis is called the reaction progress or reaction coordinate
--the products have a larger potential energy than the reactants and therefore drawn above
the reactants and the arrow representing enthalpy change points upwards.
2) Thermochemical Equations with energy terms (enthalpy withing the eqn'):
-reaction requires a certain quantity of energy to be supplied to the reactants
Example:
The molar enthalpy of combustion of sulphur dioxide is – 98.9 kJ/mol of SO2. What is
the enthalpy change for this reaction: *please represent this in each of the for ways of
representing changes in enthalpy.