chem1 virtual textbook
a reference text for General Chemistry
Stephen Lower
Simon Fraser University
The chapters in this section deal with the rates and mechanism of chemical change. These topics stand in contrast to the subjects of equilibrium and thermodynamics that control the direction of chemical change.
The Chem1 Virtual Textbook is a resource for General Chemistry aimed mainly at the first-year university level. It offers a more comprehensive, organized, and measured approach than is found in most standard textbooks. It should also be accessible to advanced high-school courses, and helpful as review material for students in more advanced courses in chemistry, biology, geology, and engineering.
To access the desired page, click one of the lesson titles immediately below; you can also go directly to any sub-section within a lesson by clicking on a smaller heading.
1- Rates of reactions and rate laws
2- How rates of reactions change wth time
3- Collision and activation: the Arrhenius law
4- Mechanisms: how reactions take place
5- Kinetics of reactions in solution
Some useful references
Book: An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics (Margaret Wright, 2004) - get
Book chapter: Rates and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions (Chapter 22 of Chemical Principles, 3rd Ed (1979) by Dickerson, Gray, and Haight.) Perfectly good for first-year general chemistry courses.
Online book chapter: Reaction Rates (Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, John Hutchinson)
MIT Principles of Chemistry Video Lectures - 2008:
L31: Rate Laws -
go -
notes
L33: Reaction Mechanisms -
go
L34: Temperature and Kinetics -
go
L35: Enzyme Catalysis -
go
Khan Academy videos: Introduction to Kinetics - go
Web sites
Chemical Kinetics Notes (W. Salzman, U. Arizona 2000) - go
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