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Reactive Hard Spheres

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CH-310: Dynamics and kinetics

The course covers the principles of chemical kinetics, including differential rate laws, derivation of exact and approximate integral rate laws for common elementary and composite reactions, fundamentals of collision and transition state theories, and appl ...

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This lecture covers the topic of reactive hard spheres, focusing on the differential cross section and deflection function. The instructor explains the concepts of central potential and two-body classical scattering in detail.

Instructor

Ulrich Lorenz

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Jakub Hruby Past EPFL PhD Students Pavel Olshin, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Chengcheng Yan, Oliver Florian Harder, Mowry Nathan Junior, Constantin Richard Krüger

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