Empirical treatment of reaction rates, treatment of data, gas-phase reactions, reactions in solution, catalysis, complex reactions, chain reactions. Collision theory and potential energy surfaces. Lab fee required. Introduction to the use of modern biophysical techniques. Fluorescence spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, FTIR, NMR, diffraction techniques, etc.
Emphasis is on quantitative analysis.
C. Kinetic theory of gases, chemical kinetics, statistical mechanics, photochemistry. Lab fee required. Mathematica R , a symbolic programming language, is taught in the computer laboratory. Lab fee required. Lab fee required.