A Nonlinear Regression for AIBN Decomposition

Note A and E are initial estimates from linear regression 

Note SOLVER finds the values of it(363) and E that minimize the boxed Sum below Note Calculated from it(363) and E 

9759E-04 123.00 2.5058E-01 SOLVER appears to have converged  

The numbers in the column labeled Sum show that 2 i(k,theo — k,exp) increases sUghtly when k(363) is either increased or decreased slightly from the value of 2.2438 x 10 found by SOLVER, when E is fixed at 123.30 kJ/mol. Also, the Sum increases slightly when E is increased slightly above the value of 123.30 kJ/mol found by SOLVER, when k 363) is fixed at 2.2438 x 10 . However, when E is decreased below 123.30 kJ/mol, the Sum decreases. This shows that SOLVER had not reached a minimum with respect to E. In fact, the Sum continued to decrease with E at constant k(363) until E was in the region of 121-122 kJ/mol. 

APPENDIX 6-C Analysis of Michaelis-Menten Rate Equation 199 

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APPENDIX 6-A Nonlinear Regression for AIBN Decomposition 197 APPENDIX 6-A NONLINEAR REGRESSION FOR AIBN DECOMPOSITION... 

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