This document discusses chemical kinetics, which is the branch of chemistry that deals with the rates of chemical reactions. It defines key terms like rate of reaction, average rate of reaction, instantaneous rate of reaction, rate constant, rate law, order of reaction, molecularity, activation energy, temperature coefficient, and half-life period. The various factors that affect the rate of a reaction are also listed, including concentration, surface area, temperature, nature of reactants, presence of a catalyst, and radiation. The Arrhenius equation relating reaction rate to temperature is presented.