Chemistry › Section M · Equilibrium › Topic M.4
Equilibrium calculations
Knowing K is only useful if you can turn it into amounts: how much product a reactor will hold, or how much of a substance survives in solution. A simple table and a little algebra do that for almost every equilibrium you will meet.
In this topic
- Three kinds of question
- ICE tables
- Worked example: finding K from one measurement
- Finding a missing concentration
- Worked example: a perfect square
- Worked example: the quadratic case
- The small-x approximation
- Worked example: a very small K
- When the shortcut fails
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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