1. Principles of Sampling for Particulate Solids. 2. Particle and Powder Bed Properties. 3. Flow: General Principles of Bulk Solids Handling. 4. Blending and Blend Uniformity. 5. Milling. 6. Drying. 7. Spray Drying: Theory and Pharmaceutical Applications. 8. Pharmaceutical Granulation Processes, Mechanism, and the Use of Binders. 9. Dry Granulation. 10. The Preparation of Pellets by Extrusion/Spheronization. Coating Processes and Equipment. 12. Aqueous Polymeric Film Coating. 13. The Application of Thermal Analysis to Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms. 14. Preformulation Studies for Tablet Formulation Development. 15. Stability Kinetics. 16. Compaction Simulation; 17. Compression and Compaction