Office: Chem 3216 Office hours: Tuesday 11-12, Wednesday 10-11
Phone: 405-6569 and by appointment
Email: mullin@umd.edu

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45, Chemistry 3219

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Required Textbook

Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics, by Jeffrey I. Steinfeld, Joseph S. Francisco and William L. Hase, Prentice Hall, NJ, second edition, 1999, ISBN 0-13-737123-2. Additional texts will be placed on reserve in the Chemistry Library.

Topics Covered (not necessarily listed in order)
Reaction rates
Kinetic theory of gases
Experimental methods
Potential energy surfaces
Intermolecular potentials and the multipole expansion
Rate theories
Transport properties
Unimolecular reactions, RRK and RRKM theories
Interaction of light with matter: atomic, molecular and chemical lasers
Optical control of atoms and molecules: condensates, photoassociation reactions, coherent control