310384 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 201

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12935 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 100 or any previous version OR 7026 (v.6) Pharmaceutics 122 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Tablet formulation : Formulation factors, granulation, compression; evaluation of tablets. Tablet coating: film, sugar and compression coating and evaluation. Rheology: Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow; thixotropy; rheology in formulations; measurement of rheological parameters; spreadability; viscoelastic behaviour. Colloids and Pharmaceutical Suspensions: types of colloids; optical, kinetic and electrical properties, colloid stability and pharmaceutical applications, water-soluble polymers, gels and gelling, syneresis and interaction of polymers with water and other solvents. Pharmaceutical suspensions; flocculation phenomena; controlled flocculation, structured vehicles, dry suspension formulations; crystal growth. Evaluation of pharmaceutical suspensions. Particle size measurement : Importance of particle size, evaluation of particle size by range of techniques. Pharmaceutical aspects of solutions: ) Iso-osmolarity and isotonicy, adjusting tonicity; pH of weak acids, bases and salts; buffers and buffer capacity; effect of pH on the solubility of weak acids, weak bases and amphoretic compounds.
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Field of Education:	060501 Pharmacy
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

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Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External