Course Title PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Course Code PH314

Course Credit

Lecture : 3

Practical : 3

Tutorial : 0

Total : 6

Course Objectives

On the completion of the course, students will be able to:

Understand the fundamental concepts of chemistry lying emphasis on the physics.

Demonstrate understanding import thermodynamic state functions such as internal energy,

enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs energy,

Analyze the equilibrium and the direction of spontaneous change in terms of the chemical

potentials of substances, and the phase diagrams.

Detailed Syllabus

Sr. No.

Name of Chapter & Details Hours

Allotted

SECTION I

1 The liquid state: 06

Physical properties surface tension, parachor, viscosity, refractive index, optical

rotation, dipole moment of chemical constituents.

08

2 Solutions: 07 10

Ideal and real solutions, solutions of gases in liquids, colligative properties,

partition co-efficient, conductance and its measurement, Debye-Huckel theory.

3 Adsorption:

Basic principles, Freundlich and Gibbs adsorption isotherms, Langmuir theory of

adsorption.

04

SECTION II

4 Thermodynamics:

Basic principles, First, Second and third laws, Zeroth Law, absolute temperature

scale, thermochemical equations, phase equilibria and phase rule, One and two

component systems.

08

5 Photochemistry:

Basic principles, Consequence of light adsorption, Jablonski diagram, Lambert-

Beer Law, Quantum efficiency.

04

6 Chemical kinetics:

Zero, first and second orders reactions, complex reaction, theories of reaction

kinetics, characteristics of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, acid-base

enzyme catalysis.

08

7 Radioactivity:

Basic principles of Radioactivity, Radioactivity Rays and Measurements of

Radioactivity, Applications

03

Physical Chemistry (Practical)

1. Surface property measurement

2. Viscosity measurement

3. Refractive index measurement

4. Optical rotation measurement

5. Adsorption and it’s measurement

6. Partition co-efficient measurement

7. Conductance measurement

8. Chemical kinetics measurement

9. Other practicals related with theoretical syllabus

Instructional Method and Pedagogy:

Lectures will be conducted with the aid of multi-media projector, black board, OHP etc.

Specific discussion questions will be assigned each week.

Students will be interrogated in each practical on a regular basis. Their internal practical marks

will include regular practical evaluation.

Each unit will have review questions to measure the student’s understanding of the material

Students Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

Understand the working and construction of basic instrument used for different chemical

process

Understand to calculate half life, shelf life and expiry date using chemical kinetics.

Text books:

1. Essentials of Physical Chemistry: Bahl, Arun, Tuli.

Reference Books:

1. Textbook Of Physical Chemistry: Soni P L, Dharmarma O P, Dash U N

2. Text book of Physical Chemistry: Semuel Glasstone, Macmillan India Limited, 2nd Ed. 1995.

3. Elements of physical chemistry; Peter Atkins, Julio de paula, Oxford University Press, 4th Ed.

2007.

Additional Resources:

Martin’s Physical pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences: Sinco P J