Resumen de Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analogy to Explain Collision Cross-Sections in Chemical Kinetics
Ricardo Fernández Terán, Estefanía Sucre Rosales, Lorenzo Echevarría, Florencio E. Hernandez
Herein we present an engaging description of the existent analogy between social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic and the collision cross-section of particles as defined in the collisional model for a chemical reaction. In addition, the link between collision cross-sections and kinetic rate constants is thoroughly established, bridging concepts of basic epidemiological models and fundamental chemical kinetics.
