Basic Sciences Laboratory detailed syllabus for Food Technology (Food Tech) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Food Tech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Food Technology 1st Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Food Tech 1st Sem 2019 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of basic sciences laboratory is as follows.
Physics Laboratory: Objective
- To inculcate experimental skills to test basic understanding of physics of materials including properties of matter, thermal and optical properties.
- To induce the students to familiarize with experimental determination of velocity of ultrasonic waves and band gap determination.
Physics Laboratory: List of Experiments
(Any Seven Experiments)
- Torsional pendulum – Determination of rigidity modulus of wire and moment of inertia of disc
- Non-uniform bending – Determination of Young”s modulus
- Uniform bending – Determination of Young”s modulus
- Lee”s disc Determination of thermal conductivity of a bad conductor
- Potentiometer-Determination of thermo e.m.f of a thermocouple
- Laser- Determination of the wave length of the laser using grating
- Air wedge – Determination of thickness of a thin sheet/wire
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- Optical fibre -Determination of Numerical Aperture and acceptance angle
- Compact disc- Determination of width of the groove using laser.
- Acoustic grating- Determination of velocity of ultrasonic waves in liquids.
- Ultrasonic interferometer – determination of the velocity of sound and compressibility of liquids
- Post office box -Determination of Band gap of a semiconductor.
- Spectrometer- Determination of wavelength using gating.
- Photoelectric effect
- Michelson Interferometer.
- Estimation of laser parameters.
- Melde”s string experiment
Physics Laboratory: Outcome
on completion of the course, the students will be able
- To determine various moduli of elasticity and also various thermal and optical properties of materials.
- To determine the velocity of ultrasonic waves, band gap determination and viscosity of liquids.
Chemistry Laboratory: Objectives
- To inculcate experimental skills to test basic understanding of water quality parameters, such as, acidity, alkalinity, hardness, DO, chloride and copper.
- To induce the students to familiarize with electroanalytical techniques such as, pH metry, potentiometry and conductometry in the determination of impurities in aqueous solutions.
- To demonstrate the analysis of metals and polymers by spectroscopy and viscometry methods.
Chemistry Laboratory: List of Experiments
(Minimum of 8 experiments to be conducted)
- Estimation of HCl using Na23. as primary standard and Determination of alkalinity in water sample.
- Determination of total, temporary and permanent hardness of water by EDTA method.
- Determination of DO content of water sample by Winkler”s method.
- Determination of chloride content of water sample by argentometric method.
- Estimation of copper content of the given solution by Iodometry.
- Determination of strength of given hydrochloric acid using pH meter.
- Determination of strength of acids in a mixture of acids using conductivity meter.
- Estimation of iron content of the given solution using potentiometer.
- Estimation of iron content of the water sample using spectrophotometer (1, 10-Phenanthroline / thiocyanate method).
- Estimation of sodium and potassium present in water using flame photometer.
- Determination of molecular weight of polyvinylalcohol using Ostwald viscometer.
- Pseudo first order kinetics-ester hydrolysis.
- Corrosion experiment-weight loss method.
- Phase change in a solid.
Chemistry Laboratory: Outcomes
- To analyse the quality of water samples with respect to their acidity, alkalinity, hardness and DO.
- To determine the amount of metal ions through volumetric and spectroscopic techniques
- To determine the molecular weight of polymers by viscometric method.
- To quantitatively analyse the impurities in solution by electroanalytical techniques
- To design and analyse the kinetics of reactions and corrosion of metals
Text Books:
- Laboratory Manual- Department of Chemistry, CEGC, Anna University (2014).
- Vogel”s Textbook of Quantitative Chemical Analysis (8th edition, 2014).
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Food Technology, 2019 regulation curriculum do visit Food Tech 1st Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.
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