Class-Notes on Some Bachelor's/Master's Degree Topics in Chemistry
by Rituraj
Kalita
at Dept. of Chemistry, Cotton College, Guwahati (India)
Statistical Thermodynamics: Keeping in view undergraduate students in chemistry, I have long been trying to write a concepts-oriented, non-misleading, problems-answering, introductorily exhaustive yet concise book on statistical thermodynamics, which is of late in the shape of a totally free web-book. As this topic has developed and got re-oriented since the nineteenth century, there is a need to put forward the present version of this branch of science, clearing it of the inaccuracies it encountered in its history, yet keeping it intelligible to the chemistry students. Of this web-book the first three chapters (i.e., Statistical Thermodynamics: A Brief Introduction and Tour, Distributions, Boltzmann Distribution Law, Molecular Partition Function and Expressions for the Thermodynamic Functions and Molecular Partition Function for Gases and their Thermodynamic Functions, totaling 26 pages) have been completed till now.
Solids and Ionic Solids: This is also a concepts-oriented, non-misleading, problems-answering, introductorily exhaustive yet concise treatise on the topic, again keeping in mind undergraduate students in chemistry. This 11-page treatise covers the following sub-topics: Types of solids; macroscopic properties of solids and of ionic solids; crystal lattices and units cells; types of crystal systems and Bravais lattices; lattice planes and their Miller-indices designations; close-packed structures for atomic and ionic crystals covering ionic radii, radius-ratio and ionic-structures, spinel and perovskite structures; lattice energy of ionic solids and its place in Born-Haber cycle calculations.
Non-Equilibrium (Irreversible) Thermodynamics: This is also designed to be a concepts-oriented non-misleading concise yet thorough introduction to this less available yet important master's level topic in chemistry, and is finally a 5-page treatise.
Story of Ionic Conduction of Electricity: This deals with current-field relation, conductivity-mobility relation, transport number concept, relation of ionic mobility with diffusion, conductivity-concentration relationship, ionic conduction within galvanic cells etc.
Linear Least-Squares Fitting: This discusses with the concepts, derivations and a 1st-order kinetics application about linear least-squares fitting.
Computers-in-Chemistry Notes-Center: This web-page discusses one by one the topics Modeling Molecules and Reactions in Computers: the quantum chemical approach (expanded also into a separate pair of workshop lecture and presentation); Chemical Drawing, Modeling & Computation Software-Packages and Accessing Chemical Resources from the Internet (also available as an online/downloadable tutorial). It also links to a related introductory presentation in Chemistry in Computers: from Educational Tools to computational chemistry, an introduction on elementary programming concepts (with Fortran and FoxPro examples) -- a useful material for the Indian UGC-CSIR NET examinees and some more Fortran programs on Computers in Chemistry.
Introductory Quantum Chemistry for Beginners: This page aims to enlighten beginners in the most basic concepts in quantum mechanics, and then to introduce them to quantum chemistry of atoms.
Selected Topics in Basic Quantum Chemistry: This page at present offers a generalized form of the Schmidt Orthogonalization Technique and a rigorous treatment of Schwartz Inequality and Uncertainty Principle only.
Advanced Quantum Chemistry: This page discusses Molecular Hamiltonian expressions, Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and Hartree-Fock Theory. It also links to a page on Potential Energy Surface (PES) and Chemical Reactions Dynamics and another on Perturbation MO theory and the Frontier Orbital Concept
G.U. M.Sc. 4th Semester Physical-Chemistry Experiments (2005) Manual: It offers the theories, the procedures and the calculation-outlines of twelve experiments for physical-chemistry specialization in master's-degree in chemistry from G.U.