Course Contents

THE LIQUID STATE: Structure of Liquid, Types of properties associated with Liquids, Surface Tension and its measurement including parachor, Application of parachor in structure elucidation, Viscosity and its measurement including Rheochor, Refractive index and its measurement including molar refractivity, Numericals, Exercise; THE GASEOUS STATE: Laws of Gases and gas constant, Kinetic equation of gases, Molecular velocities, Collision between gas molecules, Relationship between mean free path, Collision Diameter, Collision Frequency and collision number, Derivation of gases from ideal behavior, Vander waal’s equation, Validity of Vander waal’s equation, Study of isotherm of carbon dioxide and development of concept of critical phenomenon, Application of Vander waal’s equation to critical phenomenon and determination of critical constants, Exercise, Numericals; THE SOLID STATES: Properties of solids, Types of solids, Unit cell & types of unit cells, Crystal system and bravais lattice, X-ray diffraction and Bragg’s equation, Exercise, Numerical; SOLUTION: Types of solutions, Concentration units of solutions, Raoult’s law, Ideal and non-ideal solutions, Positive and negative deviation from ideality, Colligative properties, Exercise; BASIC CONCEPTS IN CHEMICAL BONDING: Covalent bond, Nature of covalent bonding, Concept of orbital, Atomic and molecular orbital, Formation of covalent bond, sigma bond and pi-bond, Orbital Hybridization, Inductive effect, Ionic character of covalent bond, Bond angle, bond energy and bond length, Delocalised chemical bonding, molecular orbital, Resonance method, Rules or resonance, Practice of drawing resonating structures, Hyperconjugation, Hydrogen bonding, Tautomerism; HYDROCARBONS: Difference between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, Nomenclature of alkane, Preparation of alkanes, Physical properties and reactions of alkanes; CYCLOALKANES: Nomenclature, Preparation, Physical properties, Structure Description; UNSATURATED HYDROCARBONS: Alkenes, Alkynes PRACTICAL COURSE DESCRIPTION: Determination of surface tension using stalagmometer, includes: Determination of surface tension, Determination of parachor of various liquid, Determination percentage composition of mixture; Determination of viscosity using viscometer, includes: Determination of Viscosity, Determination of Rheochor of various liquids, Determination of percentage composition of mixture; Determination of refractive index, includes: Determination of refractive index, Determination of percentage composition of mixture, Determination of heat of solution and heat of neutralization.

Course Synopsis

This course holds cardinal significance in understanding the chemistry basic knowledge. It is aimed to provide the elementary chemistry knowledge for the science students belonging to different disciplines.

Course Learning Outcomes

The students studying this course will have the detailed understanding of physical chemistry which includes solids, liquids, gases and solutions. Students will also be able to develop the understanding of basic concepts of organic chemistry and classification of organic compounds. The students will be intrigued to learn the course and it will lead them to develop the interdisciplinary skills when they relate it to their major subjects.