Kinetics Module

 

By LAIDLER, MEISER AND SANCTUARY

Chapter 1 comes with all the modules. The Chemical Kinetics Module was written by Professor K. Laidler, a leading kineticist, and covers chapters 9 and 10 of the Physical Chemistry eBook. You can see the detailed Table of Contents by clicking the "Contents" link to the right. Only available in dowload format, the Chemical Kinetics chapters cover all the basic ideas along with extensive applications and examples.

The multimedia opens on the relevant pages and allows the student to visualize many of the concepts by varying parameters and plotting different graphs.  For example by varying initial conditions and rate constants, the student can follow the kinetics of different types of reactions: opposing, consecutive, parallel and chain reactions. They can easily see how the steady-state approximation works as well as other common conditions, such as the bottle neck effect and the rate determining step.

 

The chapters deal first with the definitions of rates and then move into explaining rate laws and half lives. After this, the emphasis moves into mechanisms, so important in modern chemistry, and which are applicable to processes from organic reactions to nanotechnology. The important theories of the rate constant, such as hard sphere collisions and Transition State Theory complete this comphensive treatment of Kinetics. In addition, to the the clearly written material, vivid figures and many worked examples, the user can listen to explanations and interact with the multimedia. All these allow the student to learn Physical Chemistry efficiently and meets the modern needs of those who have grown up with computers.

Download the Chemical Kinetics Solutions Manual for free. It contains the solutions to all the problems as worked out by students themselves.  This peer learning model is a valuable asset for students. Check for up-dates.