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Chemistry made easy - Part I - 22-Jul-2010

For most students, the subject chemistry seems to bring all sorts of butterfly in the stomach and apprehension. A glimpse through this article will definitely drive away the apprehension and enlighten about the subject.  

Chemistry is a science, which mainly deals with the properties, composition and structure of matter and also with the changes that take place within the matter. Everything in this universe is matter. Matter is anything that can be touched, tasted, seen, smelt or felt.

Chemistry can be approached in different ways, each yielding a different, valid and indistinguishable view of the subject. Chemistry can be viewed from multiple standpoints ranging from the purely theoretical to the eminently practical. 

Uniqueness of chemistry:

The most fascinating part of chemistry, which distinguishes it from other sciences is making of new chemical substances, i.e. matter.

An estimate reveals, there were a few hundred chemical substances in the year 1800, compared to more than 30 million today and if the growth rate remains the same we shall have about 5 billion chemical substances by the end of this century making chemistry the most productive and diversified of all sciences.

With the list of its subdivision expanding day by day, the branches of chemistry comprises like physical, inorganic, organic, analytical, industrial or biochemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, geochemistry, agricultural chemistry, medicinal chemistry, solid-state chemistry, etc.

Chemistry after plus two: 

If you are interested in chemistry after 10+2, BSc chemistry would be the apt course for you. In the entire country, several educational institutions offer the BSc chemistry programme.

The course content of BSc chemistry is equally divided among three branches, viz. physical, organic and inorganic chemistry. Most of the topics are further in-depth extensions of what you have learnt at the plus-2 level and include, among others, atomic structure and chemical bonding, thermodynamics, chemistry of various elements, various classes of organic compounds, electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, quantum mechanics and spectroscopy etc.

To facilitate in-depth understanding of the various concepts learnt in theory classes and to give them hands-on experience, students also have to do experiments relating to all the three branches of chemistry in each year of the BSc course.

With a Bachelor�s degree in chemistry, a student can go for Master�s in the same and then PhD. At the Master�s level, you may specialise in any branch of your choice viz. physical, inorganic, organic, analytical or biochemistry.

Further, another closely related field of Chemistry is BTech (chemical engineering) that couls also be a choice of opinion for studies.