Engineering Chemistry

Shikha Agarwal is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the Government Engineering College, Ajmer. She has taught courses on engineering chemistry, environmental science, spectroscopy, photochemistry and reaction mechanisms at the undergraduate and postgraduate level for several years. Her areas of interest include organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and environmental science.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Fuels; 2. Water; 3. Corrosion; 4. Phase rule; 5. Engineering materials; 6. Polymers; 7. Lubricants; 8. Periodic properties; 9. Acid base, oxidation reduction and intermolecular forces; 10. Structure and bonding; 11. Solid state; 12. Liquid crystals; 13. Chemical kinetics; 14. Surface chemistry; 15. Thermodynamics; 16. Electrochemistry; 17. Spectroscopy; 18. Photochemistry; 19. Fundamentals of organic chemistry; 20. Coordination compounds; 21. Organometallic compounds; 22. Green chemistry; 23. Nanochemistry; 24. Basics of environment science; 25. Chemical aspects of biotechnology; 26. Analytical techniques in chemistry; 27. Chemistry of carbon and hydrogen; References; Index.