Instantaneous rate or average rate?
Read exercise and reference answers
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- Measured at a particular instant
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- Instantaneous rate
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- The slope at a single point
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- Instantaneous rate
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- Taken over a large interval of time
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- Average rate
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- A change spread across a period
- Category
- Average rate
- Categories
- Item
- Instantaneous rate
- Item
- Average rate
One is a snapshot, the other is a span. Source: syllabus Chemistry Part I, Ch 3 Chemical Kinetics.