Chemical kinetics:- Branch of chemistry which deals with the study of rate of reaction, their mechanisms and factors affecting them.

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

• Definition
• Classification of reaction on basis of rates
• Expression of rate of reaction
• Factors affecting the rate of reaction
• Rate law expression, rate constant and order of reaction
• Molecularity of a reaction
• Integrated rate equal for different order reaction
• Half life period
• Pseudo first order reaction
• Rate of radio active decay or disintegration
• Activation energy of reaction
• Arrhenius equation
• Collision theory of chemical reactions
• Effect of catalyst on rate of reaction