Question

how does activation energy affect kinetic energy? Why is it that you neglect the activation energy of the forward reaction?

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Answer 1

Reaction of reactant molecules takes place due to the molecular collision of molecules .For a reaction to take solace it requires a minimum energy called activation energy .and this energy is coming out from the collision of the molecules ,that collide with the molecules.The activation required for the reaction coming out from the kinetic energy of the reaction.so the kinetic energy of the reaction will be small because it get turned into activation energy.

Here the activation energy is constant in the forward reaction ,so we can neglect it.