 This video will cover the basics of what we're going to learn over the next few weeks in chemical kinetics. Kinetics is all about the rate or speed of a reaction. How fast can a chemical reaction go from having lots of the starting material to a lot more of the product? Basically it's about speed measured in an amount of material, usually a concentration, per time usually seconds. We'll define reaction orders which let us classify reactions and give hints as to the mechanism and we'll find out how to derive weight laws that govern and describe these reactions as they progress. We'll calculate rate constants for first order reactions and pseudo first order reactions and define and explain the steady state approximation and we'll definitely cover what all those terms actually mean. We'll look at the factors affecting these rates, how concentration, temperature and the presence of catalyst speed up or slow down reactions and we'll apply the Uranius equation to explain temperature and how that affects the rate constants of a reaction. We'll look at the Maxwell Boltzmann equation for energy distribution of molecules and break down exactly how all that mathematical notation converts to a human readable graph. We'll define collision diameter, cross section, collision frequencies, steric requirements, collision density and all the collision theory stuff that really explains how this all works on a molecular scale. We'll also look at the intricate relationship between kinetics and thermodynamics as these two concepts are very closely linked by how they treat energy. Finally, we'll make sure all of this is wrapped up in the context of experimental methods and experimental approaches. How do we get this data and importantly, how do we process it? Which means we'll be continually waltzing around all aspects of chemistry and science, the practical, the statistical and the theoretical.