CONTENTS:

UNIT-I

Chapter – 1 : SOME BASIC CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRY:

Introduction 1.1. Important contributions of chemistry,

1.2. Units of measurement, system of units, 1.3. Matter, 1.4. Atoms and molecules, 1.5. States of matter, 1.6. Symbol, 1.7. Valency, 1.8. Radicals, 1.9. Formula, 1.10. Naming of compounds, 1.11. Chemical equation.

Chapter – 2 : BASIC CONCEPTS – ATOMS & MOLECULES

2.1. Laws of chemical combinations, 2.2. Dalton’s atomic theory, 2.3. Dalton’s atomic theory and the law of chemical combination, 2.4. Atomic mass, 2.5. Determination of relative atomic mass by Dulong and Petit’s method, 2.6. Molecular mass, 2.7. Equivalent mass, 2.8. Equivalent masses of acids, bases and salts, 2.9. Percentage composition, molecular formula and empirical formula, 2.10. Avogadro’s hypothesis and the mole concept, 2.11. Stoichiometry (calculations based on chemical equation).

UNIT – II

Chapter – 3 : STRUCTURE OF ATOM:

3.1. Fundamental particles and their properties, 3.2. Thomson’s model for the structure of atom, 3.3. Rutherford’s experiment-scattering of alpha particles, 3.4. Characteristics of radiation and Planck’s theory, 3.5. Bohr’s model of atom, 3.6. Bohr’s equation for energy of electron in Hydrogen atom, 3.7. Solar spectrum, 3.8. Bohr’s theory and hydrogen spectrum, 3.9. Dual nature of electron, 3.10. Quantum numbers, 3.11. Pauli’s exclusion principle, 3.12. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and the concept of probability, 3.13. Aufbau principle, 3.14. Hund’s rule, 3.15. Electronic configuration of elements, 3.16. Extra stability of half filled and completely filled orbitals.

UNIT – III

4: CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS AND PERIODICITY IN PROPERTIES

Introduction-4.1. Brief history of Periodic table, 4.2. Long form of Periodic table, 4.3. Cause of periodicity and magic numbers, 4.4. Classification with respect to s, p, d, f blocks, 4.5. Periodicity