ABSTRACT
We have taken a quick trip through what we consider essential thermodynamics and for those students who are only going to take one semester of physical chemistry we have to make sure we treat the basics of chemical kinetics. A glance at the table of contents’ chapter headings will reveal that we can continue to do more with kinetics in an additional chapter or skip to some basic spectroscopy and then return to more kinetics in the second semester with an emphasis on the molecular level. Here, we want to make sure we establish the mathematical basis for the time dependence of chemical reactions at a macroscopic level. Once again we are giving what we believe are the essential aspects of kinetics here and then visit more advanced kinetics in the second semester.
