2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Science Undergraduate major in Chemistry
Exercise in Introductory Chemical Kinetics
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Chemistry
- Instructor(s)
- Masashi Kitajima / Shun-Ichi Ishiuchi / Keisuke Hirata / Masaaki Nakamura
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CHM.C303
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course facilitates, through solving exercises, students’ understanding the basic concepts on chemical kinetics.
Course description and aims
Through solving exercises in this course, students will be able to understand the basics of chemical reactions from the view point of physical chemistry.
Keywords
physical chemistry, rate constant, rate equation, reaction order, transition state theory, reaction cross section, diffusion controlled reaction
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Solving exercises and its explanation.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Reaction rate, rate constant, rate equation | Write down the rate equation using the rate constant |
| Class 2 | Reaction order, molecularity of reaction | Explain reaction order and molecularity of the reaction |
| Class 3 | first order reaction, second order reaction | Solve the rate equation of first order reaction and second order reaction |
| Class 4 | Consecutive reaction, pseudo-first order reaction, Steady-state approximation | Explain consecutive reaction and pseudo-first order reaction, and solve the rate equation by using steady-state approximation |
| Class 5 | Transition state theory | Explain transition state theory |
| Class 6 | Collision theory and collision cross section | Obtain the root mean square velocity of gases using the collision cross sections and Boltzmann distribution. |
| Class 7 | Reaction cross section of bimolecular reaction | Give the relation between the reaction cross section and the rate constant of bimolecular reaction |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Course materials are provided during class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Physical Chemistry 8/e (Oxford University Press)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Full attendance and completion of all exercises are compulsory. Students will be assessed on their understanding and commitment of each class and the final exam.
Related courses
- CHM.C301 ： Introductory Chemical Kinetics
Prerequisites
Enrollment in the related courses is desirable.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Masashi Kitajima (mkitajim[at]chem.titech.ac.jp)
Office hours
Contact by email in advance to schdule an appointment.