Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Pirkle, J. C., Jr..
Atomic hydrogen-bromine linear collision reaction intermediate formation and reactive scattering cross sections quantum mechanical calculation, using perturbed Morse oscillator approximation
Energy distribution among products of reactive collision of atomic H with Br molecule yielding HBr and Br atom, using perturbed Morse oscillator approximation
Study applies the nonequilibrium collision theory of reaction rates to the estimation of rate constants for simple reactions. The complications in the quantum mechanical description of chemical reactions and the care needed in approximating the exact wave function for the collision are shown.
Quantum mechanical calculations for gas phase bimolecular exchange reactions between hydrogen and bromine