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Chemical Kinetics: A key branch of Physical Chemistry

The feasibility of a given reaction can be predicted with the help of their dynamic principles. Besides this the relative amount of reactants and products at equilibrium position of the reaction can also be predicted. In addition, we can predict whether changes in the experimental conditions will increase or decrease the amount of products at equilibrium. However, thermodynamic principles do not provide any information regarding the speed of the given reaction, i.e., how much time a given feasible reaction will take for its completion. Moreover, it is not possible to predict how the speed of a given reaction gets affected by changing the experimental conditions. The study of rate of reaction or by changing the experimental conditions.  The study of rate of reactions including its dependence on the concentration. The important topic of physical chemistry is known as chemical kinetics. The important application of the study of rate of reaction is to use the kinetic data in establis