Week 6 Worked Examples

This section contains model answers for the Week 6 exercises on model fitting.

The exercises cover:

• Exercise 1: Linear fitting of the Van’t Hoff equation — Using scipy.optimize.minimize() to fit a linear model to thermodynamic data and extract \(\Delta H\) and \(\Delta S\) for a reaction.

• Exercise 2: Non-linear fitting of kinetic data — Fitting a first-order kinetic model to experimental data for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.