This document discusses key concepts in chemical kinetics including:
- Rate laws describe how reaction rates depend on reactant concentrations. Rate laws can be determined experimentally from initial rate data.
- Reactions can be zero-order, first-order, or second-order depending on how the rate depends on reactant concentrations.
- Integrated rate laws relate reactant concentrations to time and rate constants. Graphical methods using plots of concentration or transformed concentration vs. time can determine reaction order and rate constants.