Chemistry A-Level
area beyond the activation energy
What area beyond the activation energy means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Beyond a marked Eₐ the shaded area under the hotter curve is many times larger, so many more molecules have energy greater than or equal to the activation energy.
Topics that use area beyond the activation energy
- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- asymptotic tail
- most probable energy
- single crossing point
- area under the curve
- constant area under the curve
- mean energy
- peak lower and shifted right
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