Solid State (Weightage 2%)  

Topics from Solid State

  • Classification of solids: molecular, iconic, covalent and metallic solids (4 concepts)
  • Amorphos and crystalline solids (4 concepts)
  • Bragg's law and its applications (1 concepts)
  • Unit cell and lattices, packing in solids( fcc, bcc and hcp lattices) (5 concepts)
  • Calculations involving unit cell parameters (22 concepts)
  • Voids (11 concepts)
  • Real gases, deviation from ideal behaviour, compressibility factor and van der Waals equation (22 concepts)
  • Gas laws- Boyle's law, Charle's Law' Graham's law of diffusion (4 concepts)
  • Avagadro's law, Dalton's law of partial pressure (1 concepts)
  • Concept of atom, Absolute sclae of temperature, ideal gas equation (3 concepts)
  • Properties of liquids- vapour pressure, viscosity and surface tension and effect of temperature on them (13 concepts)
  • Kinetic theory of gases, Concept of average, Root mean square and most probable velocities (10 concepts)
  • Imperfection in solids (4 concepts)
  • Electrical and magnetic properties (7 concepts)
  • Different methods for expressing concentration of solution - molality, molarity, mole fraction, percentage (by volume and mass both) (8 concepts)
  • vapour pressure of solutions and Raoults Law (6 concepts)
  • Ideal and non-ideal solution (9 concepts)
  • plots for ideal and non-ideal solutions (7 concepts)
  • elevation of boiling point and osmotic pressure (12 concepts)
  • vapour pressure - composition (6 concepts)
  • Determination of molecular mass using colligative properties (2 concepts)
  • relative lowering of vapour pressure (3 concepts)
  • depression of freezing point (7 concepts)
  • vant Hoff factor and its significance. (4 concepts)
  • GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SOLID STATE (1 concepts)
  • CLASSIFICATION OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS (1 concepts)
  • CRYSTAL LATTICES AND UNIT CELLS (1 concepts)
  • NUMBER OF ATOMS IN A UNIT CELL (1 concepts)
  • CLOSE PACKED STRUCTURES (2 concepts)
  • PACKING EFFICIENCY (1 concepts)
  • CALCULATIONS INVOLVING UNIT CELL DIMENSIONS (1 concepts)
  • IMPERFECTIONS IN SOLIDS (1 concepts)
  • PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS (2 concepts)
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