Categorization Details
Course Code:
BPC-161
Credit Hours:
2(2-0-0)
Category:
Core
Pre-requisite:
Nill
Semester:
1
Degree Program:
B.TECH
Branch:
Computer Engineering Course Details
Catalog Description:
Modern atomic theory, advanced treatment of chemical bonding, structure and directional properties of molecules, chemical kinetics, catalysis electro chemical cells, corrosion and its prevention, lubrication, semiconductors, coordination compounds, crystalline structure, chemical thermodynamics, instrumental methods of chemical analysis.
Detailed Syllabus:
Introduction to modern atomic theory, Schrödinger wave equation and its applications, wave mechanical model of hydrogen atom and hydrogen atom like ions, wave functions for hydrogen atom like ions and their usefulness in determination of most probable distance and nodal distances, mechanism of He-atom.
Molecular orbital theory of covalence and its application in energy determination of bonding and antibonding molecular of H2 V.B. theory of covalence and its application to H2 molecule. Directional properties of H2O and NH3 molecules, SO3, PC15 and XeO2. Kinetics of reversible, parallel and consecutive reactions theory of absolute reaction rates.
Effect of temperature on surface reactions, pH-dependence of rate constants of catalyzed reactions, auto catalysis. Concentration cells, liquid junction potential fuel cells & their applications. Concept of corrosion, types of corrosion and factors affecting the corrosion, chemical and electrochemical theory of corrosion, methods of preventing the corrosion.
Classification and mechanism of lubrication. Theories of semiconductors, n-type and p-type semiconductors, conductivity of semiconductors, model for impurity semiconductors, organic semiconductors. Introduction, valence bond theory crystal field theory, ligand field theory and molecular orbital theory of bonding in co-ordination compounds, isomerism in co-ordination compounds. Crystalline structur-Bonrn-Baber Cycle, Bragg’s condition crystal defects.
Free energy and entropy changes the chemical process calculation of free energy change, entropy change and enthalpy in chemical and phase changing processes. Gibbs Helmholtz equation, Clausius clapeyron equation, chemical potential and Gibbs Duhem equation. Principles, instrumentation and application of IR, NMR, UV-VIS, Mass and AAS.