Kinetics in materials science and engineering Kinetics and materials science and engineering Introduction to kinetic processes in materials Second order and multi step reactions Temperature dependence of the reaction rate constant Heterogeneous reactions gas solid reactions Thermodynamics of surface and interfaces and some consequences Phase transitions Fundamentals of diffusion Atomistics of diffusion Steady state diffusion Solutions to Ficks 2nd law : Infinite and semi infinite boundary conditions Diffusion with finite boundary conditions Fluxes forces and diffusion Interdiffusion and metals Interdiffusion in compounds Spinodal decomposition revisited This book is intended to be an undergraduate text for junior and senior level students majoring in materials science and engineering (MSE). Most MSE undergraduate programs have a one semester kinetics course in their curricula that has taken the place of a classical physical chemistry course and one or more courses on materials processing. This book is not intended to be a reference work that summarizes and evaluates all of the reactions and phase transformations of importance in materials science and engineering although some unique topics are presented. Given the breadth of the field today metals ceramics electronic materials polymers biomaterials and composites it is not feasible to cover all of kinetics. Nevertheless it does cover considerably more material than can be covered in a one semester course and includes approaches and topics that are rarely found elsewhere that might be useful to graduate students researchers and industrial practitioners. One goal of this book is to incorporate important concepts that all students in materials science and engineering should be exposed to at some point in their careers based on the authors personal experience as a student researcher practicing engineer and instructor over a number of years