[jjkwest1]

One of the question in my lab is " what is the relationship between temperature and activation energy?"    My answer was that they were independent of each other since temperature does not change the pathway of the reaction only a catalyis changes the Ea. However my TA says that there is an indirect relationship. Can anyone tell me why? Thanks

[Matias Ekstrand]

From where do you get the energy to reach the E_a and make the reaction take place?