Understand how chemical reactions speed up, slow down, and reach balance with clear, practical guidance.
This edition of Outlines of Physical Chemistry helps you grasp reaction rates, catalysis, and the factors that shape complex reactions, using concrete examples and step-by-step reasoning.
The text outlines how to measure reaction velocity, determine reaction order, and interpret the effects of catalysts without assuming full end products. It also covers how side reactions, counter reactions, and consecutive reactions can influence outcomes, and how these ideas tie into electrochemistry and related topics.
- How to determine the order of a reaction and extract rate constants from data
- How catalysts accelerate reactions and how their presence changes observed rates
- Common complications like side, counter, and consecutive reactions and how to handle them
- Foundations of electrochemistry, including transport numbers and electromotive force
Ideal for readers studying physical chemistry, or anyone seeking a solid, example-driven treatment of reaction rates and catalysis in solution.