Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : CY4712 : Physical and Computational Chemistry Lab { 0-0-2 / 1}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Madhurima Jana
Syllabus
Accuracy, precession, errors (systematic and random), estimation of errors.
1. Determination of Order for the Persulphate-Iodide Reaction
2. Determination of the rate constant of hydrolysis of an ester in aqueous acidic medium.
3. Conductometric titration of a mixture of strong and weak acid with a strong base
4. pH metric titration of a mixture of strong and weak acid with a strong base
5. Study of the distribution equilibrium of iodine in water/toluene.
6. Adsorption characteristics of acetic acid on charcoal
7. Verification of Beer-Lambert law.
Mathematics for chemistry: Fundamental theorem of calculus, series and limits, Euler’s formula, ODEs, Fourier transforms, operators, functions of several variables, matrix eigenvalue problem, vector space, probability, correlations. Basic understanding of computational chemistry, use of Linux operating system.
Course Objectives
- The course is intended to acquaint the students with the practice of experimental physical chemistry along with basic mathematical and computational chemistry knowledge.
Course Outcomes
Students are expected to understand the interconnection between experimental foundation and underlying theoretical principles and to develop laboratory skills and get familiar with a variety of physico-chemical measurement and computational techniques.
Essential Reading
- 1. R. C. Das and B. Behera, , Experimental Physical Chemistry, Tata McGraw Hill
- 3. Donald A. McQuarrie and John D. Simon, Physical Chemistry: A molecular approach, , University Science Books, 1997.
Supplementary Reading
- D. Alart, Practical Physical Chemistry, Longman 1993, Longman
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