Physical Chemistry is all about
WHY 🤨 a certain reaction takes place
HOW 🧐 do the reaction conditions affect the products of a reaction
HOW MUCH 🤕 of the reactant is required and how much product will be formed.
WHEN 👀 does a reaction proceed to completion and when it does not.
WHAT are the various types of substances and why do they behave in the way they do.
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Solute, solvent and solution
Types of solution-:
Saturated/unsaturated/super saturated
Ideal and non ideal solution
Raoult's law
Solutions with positive deviation form Raoult's law ( azeotropic mixtures and their separation)
Solutions with negative deviation from Raoult's law (Azeotropic mixtures and their separation)
What is mole and how does it relate to:
Number of particles ( atoms, molecules and ions)
Volume of gas
Mass of the substance
What is chemical bonding
What are the various types of chemical bonding.
Ionic bonding with the help of lewis dot structures or electron dot diagrams
Covalent bonding explained with the help of Lewis dot structures or electron dot diagrams.
Covalent bond formation in terms of 𝛔 and 𝛑 bonding.
Hybridisation- sp, sp2, sp3 hybridisation with examples of Ethene, Ethyne and Ethane respectively.
How was the electron discovered----contribution of Sir J J Thomson
Detecting the presence of proton in an atom
Model of an atom- Thomson's model
Rutherford model
Bohr's model of atom
Quantum mechanical model
Orbit/Orbital
Planck's quantisation concept
de Broglie concept of duality
Wave/Particle nature
Spectrum---- Continuous/discontinuous.
Absorption/emission,
line and band
Orbitals-----s , p, d, f ( their shapes, energy and maximum capacity)
Aufbau principle
Hund's rule
Stability of an atom
Screening/ Shielding effect
Raoult's Law for non volatile solutes
Lowering of vapour pressure
Osmosis and Osmotic pressure
Elevation in boiling point
Depression in freezing point
Abnormal molecular mass due to association or dissociation of solute particles
Definition of terms
Zeroth law
First law
Enthalpy
Hess' Law