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After completion of the course, students will be able to
|CO1||Determine the different phases of matter and kinetics of reaction.|
|CO2||Explain the degrees of freedom of the systems and kinetics of chemical reaction|
|CO3||Demonstrate the controlling factors that affect the rate of reactions|
|CO4||Analyze the phase diagram and solve related problems|
|CO5||Fabricate the inorganic polymer-based material|
Arrhenius theory of electrolytic dissociation. Conductivity, equivalent and molar conductivity and their variation with dilution for weak and strong electrolytes. Molar conductivity at infinite dilution. Kohlrausch law of independent migration of ions.
Practice 1: Electrolyte solution
Practice 2: Electrolytic conductance
Assignment 1: Molar conductivity and their variation with dilution for weak and strong electrolytes.
Assignment 2: Ostwald's dilution law.
Walden’s rules, Debye-Huckel-Onsager equation. Ionic mobility and their determinations, transference numbers and their relation to ionic mobilities, determination of transference numbers using Hittorf and Moving Boundary methods.
Assignment 3: Walden’s rules, Debye-Huckel-Onsager equation
Assignment 4: Ionic mobility and their determinations, transference numbers and their relation to ionic mobilities.
Applications of conductance measurement: (i) degree of dissociation of weak electrolytes, (ii) ionic product of water (iii) solubility and solubility product of sparingly soluble salts, (iv) conductometric titrations, and (v) hydrolysis constants of salts.
Practice 3: Conductometric titrations
Assignment 5: Applications of conductance measurement for determining hydrolysis constants of salts.
Quantitative aspects of Faraday’s laws of electrolysis, applications of electrolysis in metallurgy and industry. Electrochemical series, rules of oxidation/reduction of ions based on half-cell potentials. Nernst equation; Standard electrode (reduction) potential and its application to different kinds of half-cells. Electromotive force of a cell and its measurement. Chemical cells, reversible and irreversible cells with examples.
Practice 4: Application of electrolysis in Electroplating
Practice 5: Electrochemical series application
Practice 6: Electrochemical cell
Practice 7: Nernst equation
Practice 8: Cell potential determination
Assignment 6: Quantitative aspects of Faraday’s laws of electrolysis
Assignment 7: Applications of electrolysis in metallurgy and industry.
Application of EMF measurements in determining (i) free energy, enthalpy and entropy of a cell reaction, (ii) equilibrium constants, and (iii) pH values, using hydrogen, quinone-hydroquinone, and glass electrodes. Concentration cells with and without transference, liquid junction potential; determination of activity coefficients and transference numbers. Qualitative discussion of potentiometric titrations (acid-base, redox, precipitation).
Assignment 8: Concentration cells without transference.
Electrical & Magnetic Properties of Atoms and Molecules:
Basic ideas of electrostatics, dielectric constant, Dipole moment and molecular polarizabilities and their measurements. Basics of diamagnetism, paramagnetism. Magnetic susceptibility and its measurement.
Practice 9: Static electricity
Assignment 9: Basic ideas of electrostatics, dielectric constant.
Energy Storage and Conversion:
Fundamentals on Li ion batteries, basic principle and types of fuel cells, theory of solar cells and types of solar cells, basic principles on super capacitors and types of super capacitors.
Practice 10: Solar Panel Experiment
Practice 11: Photoelectric effect
Practice 12: Super capacitor preparation
Assignment 10: Needs for energy storage and storage alternatives.
Recommended Text Books:
(ii) ionic product of water (iii) solubility and solubility product of sparingly soluble salts.
Application of conductance measurement in (V) hydrolysis constants of salts.
Standard electrode (reduction) potential and its application to different kinds of half-cells.
Application of EMF measurements in determining (i) free energy, enthalpy and entropy of a cell reaction.
Application of EMF in determining (ii) equilibrium constants.
Application of EMF in determining (iii) pH values, using hydrogen, quinone-hydroquinone, and glass electrodes.
Basic ideas of electrostatics, dielectric constant.
Basic principle and types of fuel cells.
Dr. Pratap Kumar Chhotaray has completed his PhD. from IIT Madras in 2015. He then moved to The University of Alabama, USA followed by Louisiana State University, USA for two years’ postdoctoral research. Thereafter, he worked as a National Postdoctoral fellow at IIT Delhi for two years. Currently, he is working as an Asst. Prof. […]