Role of energy in reactive molecular scattering: an information-theoretic approach

Topics covered include specificity of energy disposal and selectivity of energy requirements; reactive collisions at fixed total energy; reaction probability matrices; energy dependence of probability matrices; information content of a distribution; entropy of a product state distribution; the prior distribution and the surprisal; vibrational surprisal plots; rotational surprisals; triangular plot representations of product state distributions; translational surprisals; inelastic surprisals; selectivity of energy consumption; entropy deficiency of a state population distribution; application of the principle of the most probable distribution; high versus low resolution(mixing entropy and mutual entropy); branching ratios; dynamical models; dependence of reaction cross sections on total energy; and applications including: state-to-state cross sections; the ω-matrix; and statistical theories. 36 figs., 4 tables, 186 refs