Area: | School of Pharmacy |
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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. |
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** | |
Field of Education: | 060501 Pharmacy |
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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2010 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |
Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
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