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Chemistry II

COURSE CONTENTS

 

UNIT I- CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS                                                    [10 Sessions]                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                            

Concepts of system, types of systems, surroundings, work, heat, energy, extensive and intensive properties, state functions. First law of thermodynamics – internal energy and enthalpy, heat capacity and specific heat, measurement of ΔU and ΔH, Hess’s law of constant heat summation, enthalpy of: bond dissociation, combustion, formation, atomization, sublimation, phase transition, ionization, solution and dilution. Introduction of entropy as a state functions, second law of thermodynamics, Gibbs energy change for spontaneous and non-spontaneous process, criteria for equilibrium, carnot cycle, derivation of entropy for Carnot cycle, physical significance of entropy.

 

UNIT II- ELECTROCHEMISTRY                                                                         [5 Sessions]                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                            

Introduction, Electrochemical cells, Cell Potential or emf, calculating the emf of a cell, The Nernst Equation, Calculation of half-cell potential, Calomel and Glass Electrode.

 

UNIT III- CHEMICAL KINETICS                                                                          [5 Sessions]                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                            

Chemical Kinetics, Reaction Rate, Units of Rate, Rate laws, Molecularity and Order of a Reaction, Zero order reaction, first order reaction, second order reaction, third order reaction, pseudo-order reactions, Units of rate constant, Half-life of a reaction, Collision Theory of Reaction Rates, Effect of Increase of Temperature on Reaction Rate.

 

UNIT IV- LIQUID STATE                                                                                 [10 Sessions]

                                                                                                                            

Intermolecular forces in liquids, Free volume of liquid and density measurement, physical properties of liquid, vapor pressure, surface tension, surfactants, viscosity, molar refraction, Acid base concept, indicators, Strong acid-weak base titration, weak acid – strong base titration, vapour pressure, distillation, fractional distillation, vacuum distillation, colligative properties.