Molecular motion in gases and liquids; diffusion; empirical chemical kinetics; elementary and overall reactions; rate laws and their experimental determination; collision theory, activated complex theory, and activation energy; Arrhenius behavior and the role of catalysts; adsorption and catalytic activity at solid surfaces; steady-state and rate-determining-step approximations; unimolecular and higher-order reactions; enzyme kinetics; linear and branched chain reactions; polymerization kinetics; photochemical reactions; laboratory experiments related to reaction rate measurements, determination of kinetic parameters, and analysis of time- and temperature-dependent kinetic data.