Chemistry
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The official GTU curriculum for Chemistry (subject code BE01000031) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 46 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE01000031)Unit 1 Basic chemistry
- Wave mechanical concept of structure of atom
- de Broglie’s concept
- Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
- Schrodinger’s wave equation
- Shape and structure of diatomic molecules
- types of hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3, sp3d and sp3d2)
- Hard soft acids and bases concept and its applications
Unit 2 Water technology
- Hardness of water
- softening of water
- boiler problems
- caustic embrittlement
- priming and foaming
- Corrosion: Introduction to corrosion
- theories of corrosion
- types of corrosion
- protective measurements against corrosion
- organic and inorganic materials
- cathodic protection
Unit 3 Material chemistry
- Properties and applications of fullerenes
- carbon nanotubes
- nanowires and metal nanoparticles
- Top down and bottom up approaches for synthesis of nanomaterials
- Biodegradable polymers
- Bio-based feedstock
- Metals and Alloys: properties and applications
- Heat treatments of steel
- Types of alloys
- Alloys of copper
- aluminum and nickel
Unit 4 Fuel and batteries
- Refining of petroleum
- determination of calorific value by bombs calorimeter
- Knocking and octane number
- Ultimate and proximate analysis of coal
- Biodiesel and biomass briquettes
- Introduction to rechargeable cells
- lithium batteries
- construction and working
- Photolysis of water
- Fermentation: Synthesis of ethanol
- acetic acid and pharma products by fermentation
Unit 5 Instrumental analysis
- Principle and working of UV-Visible
- Infra- Red, and NMR spectroscopy and their applications
- Introduction to chromatographic techniques
- thin layer chromatography
- gas chromatography
- liquid chromatography