Assorted References. 1  major reference (in celestial mechanics: Keplerâs laws of planetary motion) 2  astronomy (in physical science: Astronomy) (in astronomy: Kepler) 3  celestial mechanics (in mechanics: History) 4  discovery and formulation (in Johannes Kepler (German astronomer)) 5  geometry (in geometry: Pythagorean numbers and Platonic solids)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In chemical kinetics, the overall rate of a reaction is often approximately determined by the slowest step, known as the rate determining step (RDS) or rate-limiting step.
Reaction 2 is the rate-determining step in this series of reactions; therefore, the rate law for the overall reaction is: where is the reaction order. Since it is an intermediate, molecule C is not part of the final reaction and, therefore, not part of the rate law.