反应动力学与动态学

Chemical kinetics and dynamics remains one of the most exciting areas inmodern chemistry. A student that successfully completes this course willdevelop skills in methods that allow the quantitative description of chemicalchange. While many portions of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum emphasizedescriptive and qualitative treatments, the present course develops a much moremathematical and computational formulation. Students will learn to constructpredictive models that describe the time evolution of chemical concentrationsand other attributes of kinetic systems including ab initio theories of ratecoefficients. In addition, this class emphasizes statisticalrate theories as well as molecular dynamics with emphasis on modern physicalchemistry methods for examining molecular processes. It also teaches important experimental methods in the research of chemical kinetics and dynamics, introduces classical experimental work and the latest research progress in this field. It includes: the design, construction, measurement, and maintenance of ultra-high vacuum experimental environments; experimental detection methods for velocity resolution, angle resolution, and quantum state resolution; classical crossed molecular beam scattering experiments; classical molecular beam surface scattering experiments; classical surface spectroscopy experiments; and the latest research progress in chemical kinetics and dynamics.