Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics

by Paul L. Houston

Overview

This text teaches the principles underlying modern chemical kinetics in a clear, direct fashion, using several examples to enhance basic understanding. It features solutions to selected problems, with separate sections and appendices that cover more technical applications.
Each chapter is self-contained and features an introduction that identifies its basic goals, their significance, and a general plan for their achievement. This text's important aims are to demonstrate that the basic kinetic principles are essential to the solution of modern chemical problems, and to show how the underlying question — "How do chemical reactions occur?" — leads to exciting, vibrant fields of modern research. The first aim is achieved by using relevant examples in presenting the basic material, and the second is attained by inclusion of chapters on surface processes, photochemistry, and reaction dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486453347
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	11/17/2006
Series:	Dover Books on Chemistry Series
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	1,063,247
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.73(d)

Table of Contents

1 Kinetic Theory of Gases1.1 Introduction 1.2 Pressure of an Ideal Gas 1.3 Temperature and Energy 1.4 Distributions, Mean Values and Distribution Functions 1.5 The Maxwell Distribution of Speeds 1.6 Energy Distributions 1.7 Collisions: Mean Free Path and Collision Number 2 The Rates of Chemical Reactions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Empirical Observations: Measurement of Reaction Rates 2.3 Rates of Reactions: Differential and Integrated Rate Laws 2.4 Reaction Mechanisms 2.5 Homogeneous Catalysis 2.6 Free Radical Reactions: Chains and Branched Chains 2.7 Determining Mechanisms from Rate Laws 3 Theories of Chemical Reactions 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Potential Energy Surfaces 3.3 Collision Theory 3.4 Activated Complex Theory (ACT) 3.5 Thermodynamic Interpretation of ACT 4 Transport Properties 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Functional Form of the Transport Equations 4.3 The Microscopic Basis for the Transport Laws 4.4 Thermal Conductivity 4.5 Viscosity 4.6 Diffusion (and more...)