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What is reaction time ?

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The driver of the moving vehicle has to apply brakes instantly to avoid accident if any person of another vechicle or any obstacle is there in the path. The time taken to come out of this situation, to think and to implement is called reaction time.
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Knowledge Check

  • The half reaction time required to decrease initial cocentration from 40% to 20 % is 20 minute.What time will be taken to decrease initial concentration from 10% to 5%?

    A
    20 minute
    B
    5 minute
    C
    10 minute
    D
    60 minute
  • In a first order reaction the time reaquired for the concentration to decrease from 6 moles to 3 moles is 40 minutes in such a reaction what time will be taken for the conversion reactant from 12 moles to 6 moled?

    A
    20 minutes
    B
    40 minutes
    C
    80 minutes
    D
    160 minutes
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