PHS 702 Chemical Kinetics and Statistical Thermodynamics

Chemical Kinetics

Textbooks:
  • Chemical Kinetics, Keith J. Laidler, Harper and Row (ISBN 0-06-043862-2)
  • Physical Chemistry, Keith J. Laidler

    Part 1. Empirical Derivation and Historical Aspect of Arrhenius Equation.

    Part 2. Activation Energy

    Part 3. Collision Theory

    Part 4. Derivation of Rate Constant

    Part 5. Calculations of TST

    Exam #1 this way.

    Statistical Thermodynamics

    • Textbook:

  • Molecular Driving Forces, Ken A. Dill and Sarina Bromberg, Garland Science (ISBN 0-8153-2051-5)

    Supplemental Text:

  • Statistical Thermodynamics, Donald A. McQuarrie, University Science Books, (ISBN 0-935702-18-0).

    Part 1. Preliminaries.

    Part 2. Microcanonical Ensemble.

    Part 3. Canonical Ensemble.

    Part 4. Grand Canonical Ensemble and Fluctions.

    Part 5. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics

    Part 6. Ideal Monatomic and Diatomic Gases

    Part 7. Polyatomic Gases

    Part 8. Equilibrium

    Project

    Final Exam

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    April 20, 2001, Nikita Matsunaga