Syllabus

Course Code: CH-302    Course Name: Physical chemistry-III

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Energetics
Recapitulation of thermodynamics and the Laws of Thermodynamics.Joule–Thomson coefficient for ideal gas and real gas and inversion temperature. Important principles and definitions of thermochemistry. Concept of standard state and standard enthalpies of formations, integral and differential enthalpies of solution and dilution. Calculation of bond energy, bond dissociation energy and resonance energy from thermochemical data. Variation of enthalpy of a reaction with temperature – Kirchhoff’s equation.Statement of Third Law of thermodynamics and calculation of absolute entropies of substances.
Electrochemistry-II
Concentration cells with transference and without transference. Liquid junction potential and salt bridge.pH determination using hydrogen electrode and quinhydrone electrode.Potentiometric titrations -qualitative treatment (acid-base and oxidation-reduction only).
2 Chemical Equilibrium
Equilibrium constant and free energy, concept of chemical potential. Thermodynamic derivation of the law of chemical equilibrium.Temperature dependence of equilibrium constant. Distinction between ΔG and ΔGo, Le Chatelier’s principle.Relationships between Kp, Kcand Kx for reactions involving ideal gases. Clausius–Clapeyron equation and its applications. Nernst distribution law and its applications.
Phase Equilibrium
Phases, components and degrees of freedom of a system, criteria of phase equilibrium. Gibbs Phase Rule and its thermodynamic derivation. Derivation of Clausius – Clapeyron equation and its importance in phase equilibria. Phase diagrams of one-component systems (water and sulphur) and two component systems involving eutectics (Pb-Ag system only), desilverisation of lead.
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