Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics is a modern textbook for advanced courses. Houston emphasizes the essential principles of kinetics and dynamics through relevant examples and current research, providing students with a clear, basic understanding.

1 Kinetic Theory of Gases

1.1 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

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