Electrochemistry. Kinematics and surface chemistry
(Weightage 1%)
Topics from Electrochemistry. Kinematics and surface chemistry
- Rate of a chemical reaction (5 concepts)
- rate law, rate constant and its units (3 concepts)
- factors affecting the rate of reactions: concentration, temperature, pressure and catalyst (6 concepts)
- effect of temperature on rate of reactions -Arrhenius theory, activation energy and its calculation (8 concepts)
- order and molecularity of reactions (6 concepts)
- elementary and complex reactions (1 concepts)
- collision theory of bimolecular gaseous reactions (3 concepts)
- their characteristics and half -lives (5 concepts)
- Adsorption (22 concepts)
- Physisorption and chemisorption and their characteristics (11 concepts)
- adsorption from solutions (1 concepts)
- Catalysis - Homogeneous and heterogeneous (8 concepts)
- colloids and suspensions (8 concepts)
- multimolecular, macromolecular and associated colloids (micelles) (1 concepts)
- preparation and properties of colloids - Tyndall effect, Brownian movement, electrophoresis, dialysis, coagulation and flocculation (5 concepts)
- Colloidal state- distinction among true solutions (8 concepts)
- activity and selectivity of solid catalysts (1 concepts)
- Emulsions and their characteristics (1 concepts)
- Electronic concepts of oxidation and reduction (6 concepts)
- Redox reactions (8 concepts)
- Oxidation number, rules for assigning oxidation number (8 concepts)
- Balancing of redox reactions (1 concepts)
- Eectrolytic and metallic conduction (1 concepts)
- Conductance in electrolytic solutions (11 concepts)
- Molar conductivities and their variation with concentration (6 concepts)
- Kohlrausch's law and its applications (3 concepts)
- Electrochemical cells - Electrolytic and Galvanic cells (1 concepts)
- Different types of electrodes, electrode potentials including standard electrode potential (3 concepts)
- Half - cell and cell reactions (4 concepts)
- Nernst equation and its applications (2 concepts)
- Relationship between cell potential and Gibbs' energy change (8 concepts)