00:02
Hi there, as we are looking at this graph, we see that the vertical axis is increasing energy.
00:09
Then looking at the reaction progress itself, we see that the reactants start off at a higher point than the products end up.
00:27
So what that tells us is the products have lower energy than the reactants and we know that energy cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction such as this.
00:51
Therefore, that extra energy, the energy difference between the reactants and the products means that the energy was given off or in other words this is an exothermic process.
01:19
Okay, so for an exothermic process when we have a reaction, when we write an equation for an exothermic process, heat or energy if they're giving you an energy value will be a reactant or a product rather, i'm sorry, energy will be a product.
01:48
Let's get that definitely straight.
01:50
Energy is given off so it is going to be a product.
01:55
So we are looking for the equation or equations here that show heat or energy as a product.
02:06
Well, in our first one, letter a, we see the 556 kilojoules as a reactant.
02:13
So that one a is endothermic.
02:16
So energy is going in and the products would have a higher energy than the reactant...