Syllabus:
- Rutherford's atomic model
- Limitations of Rutherford's atomic model
- Postulates of Bohr’s atomic model and its application
- Spectrum of hydrogen atom
- Defects of Bohr’s theory
- Elementary idea of quantum mechanical model: de Broglie's wave equation
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
- Concept of probability
- Quantum Numbers
- Orbitals and shape of s and p orbitals only
- Aufbau Principle
- Pauli’s exclusion principle
- Hund’s rule and electronic configurations of atoms and ions (up to atomic no. 30)