Essentials of Physical Pharmacy

Contents: Preface. Greek Alphabets. 1. States of matter. 2. Physical properties of drug molecules. 3. Phase rule. 4. Thermodynamics. 5. Rheology. 6. Diffusion and dissolution. 7. Colloids. 8. Chemical kinetics. 9. Solutions of nonelectrolytes. 10. Solutions of electrolytes. 11. Solubility and distribution phenomena. 12. The solid state. 13. Micromeritics. 14. Interfacial phenomena. 15. Units and measures. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

"Physical Pharmacy is one of the important subjects for a pharmacy student. The purpose of introducing this subject in the first or second year graduate curriculum is to make the students thoroughly acquainted with the fundamental concepts, which helps them in successive years. However, the purpose is not served due to complexities in understanding the subject from the other textbooks existing in the market.

This book Essentials of Physical Pharmacy is mainly designed to remove the phobia from the minds of students towards physical pharmacy. The author's experience in the subject has shown them that it is often difficult for the students to understand an oversimplified presentation than the one that is rigorous enough to engender some insight into the relevance of material. This was the primary objective in designing the contents of the book.

This presents fundamental concepts in a lucid, disentangled and self-explanatory form.

Each chapter includes discussion of important experiments and investigations followed by a set of problems.Glossary is included to facilitate students to avoid meomorising isolated definitions."