Physical Chemistry — GATE Chemistry (CY)
Physical Chemistry for GATE Chemistry (CY): all 15 topics, with study resources and previous year questions for each.
Topics in Physical Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry: Structure (GATE CY) — Structure: Postulates of quantum mechanics. Operators. Commutation relations and expectations values; the role of the wave function and its absolute squares, t…
- Particle in a Box (GATE CY) — Particle in a Box: Solutions and interpretations for finite length and infinite potential barrier; concept of tunnelling; particle in 1D, 2D and 3D-boxes; appl…
- Harmonic Oscillator (GATE CY) — Harmonic Oscillator: Exact solutions of wave functions, properties of Hermite polynomials. eigenvalues in one dimension. Calculation of expectation values for…
- Rotational Motion (GATE CY) — Rotational Motion: Angular momentum operators (orbital and spin), spherical harmonics and their properties.
- Hydrogen and Hydrogen-like Atoms (GATE CY) — Hydrogen and Hydrogen-like Atoms: Atomic orbitals; radial and angular distribution functions and their probabilities; Atomic units, Multi-electron atoms: Orbit…
- Molecular Structure and Chemical Bonding (GATE CY) — Molecular Structure and Chemical Bonding: Born-Oppenheimer approximation; Valence bond theory treatment for hydrogen molecule and linear combination of atomic…
- Group Theory (GATE CY) — Group Theory: Symmetry elements and symmetry operations. Basic postulates of groups and group multiplication tables. Classes, reducible and irreducible represe…
- Spectroscopy (GATE CY) — Spectroscopy: Atomic spectroscopy; Russell-Saunders coupling; Term symbols and spectral details; origin of selection rules. Rotational, Vibrational, Electronic…
- Physical Chemistry: Equilibrium (GATE CY) — Equilibrium: Laws of thermodynamics. Standard states. Thermochemistry. Thermodynamic functions and their relationships: Gibbs-Helmholtz and Maxwell relations,…
- Physical Chemistry: Solutions (GATE CY) — Solutions: Ideal and non-ideal solutions, Raoult’s Law and Henry’s Law.
- Electrochemistry (GATE CY) — Electrochemistry: Standard electrode potential and electrochemical cells. Nernst Equation and its application, relationship between electrode potential and the…
- Phase Equilibria (GATE CY) — Phase Equilibria: Phase rule. Clausius- Clapeyron equation. Phase diagram of one component system: CO2, H2O, S; two component systems: liquid-vapor, liquid-liq…
- Statistical Thermodynamics (GATE CY) — Statistical Thermodynamics: Micro-canonical, Canonical and Grand canonical ensembles, Boltzmann distribution, Partition functions and thermodynamic properties.…
- Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics (GATE CY) — Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics: Elementary, parallel, opposing, and consecutive reactions. Steady state approximation. Mechanism of complex reactions. Unimolec…
- Surfaces and Interfaces (GATE CY) — Surfaces and Interfaces: Physisorption and chemisorption. Langmuir, Freundlich and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) isotherms. Surface catalysis: Langmuir-Hinshelw…