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JET/Pre-PG Test 2015 :
SYLLABUS FOR JET :
PHYSICS
UNIT – A
Dynamics of a particle: Conservative and non-conservative force, Motion of a particle under different types of forces or potentials : constant, linearly varying and variable conservation of linear momentum and energy. Application, direct and oblique collision between particles, elastic and inelastic collisions. Static and dynamical problems involving forces and conservation laws.

Rotational motion: Centre of mass and its calculation for a two or more particle system and for rigid body. Genera motion of a rigid body, nature of rotational motion, rotational motion of single particle in a plane torque, angular momentum and its geometrical and physical meaning, conservation of angular momentum. Examples of circular motion : car on a level circular road, car on a banked road, pendulum or particle swinging in a vertical plane. Rigid body rotation and conservation of its angular momentum. Comparison of linear and rotational motions. Definition of moment of inertia, parallel axis theorem, Perpendicular axis theorem for a plane lamina. Calculation of M. I. in case of ring disc, cylinder and sphere, Motion of a rigid body on an inclined plane.

UNIT – B
Heat & Termodynamics: Heat & Temperature, Zeroth law of thermodynamics, mechanical equivalent of heat, First law of thermodynamics, thermodynamics state isothermals and adiabatics. Pressure temperature and pressure volume indicator diagrams. Work done during isothermal and adiabatic process, equilibrium process and phase changes, Evaporation. Thermal expansion, variation of volume and pressure of a gas with temperature, Transter of heat conduction, convection and radiation.

Thermodynamics: Reversible and irreversible thermodynamics processes, Carnot cycle, Second law of thermodynamics, efficiency of heat engine, Heat engines; external and internal combustion engines (description only).

Radiation: Nature of heat radiation emissive and absorptive powers of body, black body, emissivity. Kirchoff”s law with illustrations, Stefan’s law and Newton’s law of cooling, distribution of energy in Black body spectrum, Wien’s displacement Law, idea of Plank’s law of radiation.

UNIT – C
Waves: Wave motion, longitudinal and transverse waves, wave length, frequency, time period, amplitude of a wave. Sound waves, velocity of sound waves. Equation of a simple harmonic wave displacement, velocity and acceleration of a particle during propagation of a wave. Reflection and refraction of a wave. Superposition of waves, interference of sound waves, beats stationary waves, nodes and antinodes. Stationary waves in pipes and strings, Resonance tube, Elementary ideas of musical scale and acoustic of buildings. Doppler effect in sound waves.

Wave Optics: Interference phenomenon; conditions of sustained interference, Young’s double slit experiment, Fresnel’s Bi-Prism, Fringe-width and determination of wave length, Diffraction: diffraction phenomena : Fresnel’s and Fraunhofer class of diffraction, Fresnel’s half period zone theory, Diffraction due to a circular obstacle and circular aperture on axial points. Diffraction due to a single silt (qualitative). Resolving power of telescope and microscope, Polarization: polarized and unpolazised waves. Plane polarized, circulary polarized and elliptically polarized light. Identification of polarized and unpolarized light by-polaroid. Methods of obtaining the plane polaring length.

Relativity: Necessivity of the theory of relativity, Postulates of special theory of relativity, consequences, qualitative information about length contraction, time dilation and mass energy relation.

UNIT – D
Electrostatics: Electric field vector, Free and bound changes in conductors and insulators, Behaviour of electric field and potential inside and on the surface of a conductor and a dielectric flux, Gauss’s theorem and its applications in calculating electric field at any point due to a uniformly charged spherical shell (inside and outside), spherical conductor, sphere made up of volume distribution of charge, sheet of uniform charge density of infinite dimensions made up of a dielectric or of a conducting material, a line charge of infinite length. Force on the surface of a charged conductor Energy density in an electric field. Capacitors: Combination and types. Capacity: capacity of a parallel plate and spherical condenser, condensers in series and parallel, Energy of a charged condenser.

Kirchoff’s Laws: Kirchoff’s Laws of electrical circuits and its application to electrical circuits. Potentiometer: Principal of potentiometer, Measurement of EMF and small potential difference, calibration of voltmeter and ammeter and measurement of internal resistance of a primary cell.

Magnetic effects of current: Ampere’s law and its applications: Magnetic induction at any point due to a long straight current carrying wire, magnetic induction inside a long solenoid, magnetic induction inside a toroid.

Electromagnetic Induction: Magnetic flux, induced EMF. Faraday’s law Lenz’s law. Induced current and energy balance in a rectangular loop moving in a non uniform magnetic induction with a constant velocity, Back EMF developed when a uniform magnetic induction between them, potential difference developed across a conducting rod moving with a conducting wire moves two parallel conducting rails carrying current with a uniform velocity across a uniform magnetic induction, a conducting rod rotating in a uniform magnetic induction with a constant angular velocity and a metal disc rotating in a uniform magnetic induction with a constant angular velocity, Rectangular coil rotating in a uniform magnetic induction, Self and Mutual induction.

Alternating currents: Direct current alternating current, fluctuating D. C. and sinusoidal currents, Instantaneous, Average and root mean square value for A. C. Phase relationship between current and EMF in sinusoidal A. C., circuit containing (i) Pure resistance (ii) a resistance and an inductance, (iii) resistance and a capacitor, Impedance, resistance, reactance and susceptance. Series – L. C. R. resonant circuit, Q factor & Band with power in an A. C. circuit wattles current Electrical devices & machines: transformers, induction coil, A. C. and D. C. generators and motors, choke and starter.

Electromagnetic waves: Short history of EM waves (Maxwell, Hertz, Bose, Marconi), Basic concepts of electromagnetic oscillations, electromagnetic spectrum (radio-microwaves, infra red, optical, ultra violet, X-rays, gamma rays.

Photo Electric Effect and Matter Waves: Photo electric effect, Einstein’s explanation, Photo electric equation, photo cells. De Broglie’s concept of matter waves Davisson and Germer experiment. Thompsons experiment.

Semiconducting Electronic Devices: Electrons in solids, classification of metals, semiconductors and insulators, Intrinsic and extrinsic semi-conductors. P-type and N-type semi conductors. Semi conducting p-n junction diode and its characteristic. P-n-p and n-p-n junction transistors thir characteristics and parameters. Application in simple ideas and working of C.R.O. radio television and computer (explanation of working with block diagrams)

CHEMISTRY
UNIT – A

Structure of Atom: Development of Classical model of an atom: (i) Bohr’s model of atom: Calculation of radius of Bohr’s orbit and energy of an electron, (ii) Dual nature of matter and radiation: Quantization of electronic energy levels. Spectral evidence for quantization, (iii) Sommerfield’s extension (no mathematical treatment), (iv) De-Broglie’s Relationship, (v) Uncertainty Principle, (vi) Orbitals and quantum numbers : Shapes of orbitals, spatial distribution of atomic orbitals, (vii) Distribution of extra nuclear electrons, Aufbau principle, Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule, n+l Rule, variation in relative energies of orbitals with increase in atomic number, electronic configuration of elements (s, p, d, f, block elements). Stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals.

Periodic Table and Periodicity in Properties: (i) Electronic configuration and periodic Table: The long form of periodic table and s, p, d, f, block elements. Advantages over Mendeleev’s periodic table, (ii) Electronic configuration and Periodicity in properties, periodic perspectives, (iii) Detailed study of periodicity in physical and chemical properties with special reference to: Density, Melting and boiling points of elements. Atomic and ionic radii, Ionization potential, Electron affinity. Electro negativity, variation of effective nuclear charge in a period, metallic character, diagonal relationship.

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure: (i) Lewis structure – Octet rule and its limitations, (ii) ionic bond: Characteristics of ionic compounds, Solubility of ionic compounds, (iii) Covalent bond, introductory concept of over-lapping of orbitals and bonds, valence bond theory: Characteristics of covalent compounds. Coordinate bond, partial covalent character in ionic bond, partial ionic character in covalent bond. Fajan’s rule, Polarities of covalent molecules, (iv) Bond length, bond angle and bond-energy general consideration, (v) Hybridization of orbitals illustrated with example of compounds of first and second row elements in periodic table: Shapes of common molecules – VSEPR Theory, (vi) Hydrogen bond , (vii) Vander Waals forces of attraction.

Redox reaction: (i) Concept of formal charge on ions, (ii) Oxidation number, (iii) Oxidation reduction electron transfer concept with examples, (iv) Redox reaction- examples, (v) Balancing of equations by ion-electron method.

Chemical Equilibrium: (i) Concept of reversibility equilibrium constant, (ii) Law of mass actiongeneralized expression, (iii) Experimental method for verification of the law of mass action. Factors affecting equilibrium (concentration, pressure, temperature), (iv) Application to systems such as N2+ 3H2 _ 2NH3, PCl5 _ PCl3 + Cl2, N2 + O2 _ 2NO (v) Le Chatelier’s Principle-Application.

Chemical Kinetics: (i) Rate of a reaction, (ii) Instantaneous rate of a reaction and order of reaction (Zero and I order), (iii) Factors affecting the rate of reaction, concentration of reactant molecule, effect of temperature on the reaction rate, concept of activation energy, Catalysis, (iv) Effect of light on rate of reaction, (v) How fast are chemical reactions?

Ionic Equilibria: (i) Electrolytes and non-electrolytes, (ii) Arrhenius theory: Evidence in favour of dissociation theory, (iii) Ionic product of water, (iv) Hydrolysis, degree of hydrolysis, hydrolysis constant, (v) Relation between Hydrolysis constant, Ionic product of water and dissociation constant, (vi) Common ion effect, (vii) Solubility product and its application to qualitative analysis.

Acids and Bases: (i) Hydrogen and hydroxyl ion in aqueous solution, (ii) Bronsted-Lowey concept of acids and bases, (iii) Lewis concept (iv) Dissociation of acids, (v) pH value, (vi) Buffer solutions, (vii) Theory of indicators of acid-alkali titrations, (viii) Choice of indicators.

Energetics: (i) Energy changes during a chemical reaction, (ii) Internal energy and enthalpy (Internal energy, enthalpy and enthalpy change. Origin of enthalpy change in a reaction, Hess’s law of constant heat summation), (iii) Heats of reactions (Heat of neutralization, heat of combustion, heat of fusion and vaporization), (iv) What decides the direction of spontaneous change in a chemical reaction (an elementary idea of entropy and free energy change).

UNIT – B Colloidal State of Matter: (i) Crystalloid and colloids, (ii) Classification of colloids : Emulsion, Preparation of colloids, Lyophilic and lyophobic colloids, (iii) Properties: Electrophoresis, Dialysis, Tyndall phenomenon, Brownian movement, Coagulation-Hardy and Schulze’s law, Peptisation, Absorption, Applications.

Metals: (i) Nature of metallic state : Structural packing of atom in metals. Metallic Bond-Valence bond concept, (ii) Occurrence of metals in nature, (iii) General principles of metallurgy: Activity series of metals, Standard Electrode Potential, Metallurgical Processes, (iv) Extraction of metals : Copper, silver, Aluminum and iron.

‘s’- Block elements: (i) General characteristics, (ii) Trends in variation of properties in periodic table of alkali and alkaline earth metals, (iii) General principles of extraction of the elements, (iv) General chemistry of their compounds.

d-Block elements: (i) General characteristics, (ii) Elementary idea about paramagnetism and diamagnetism, (iii) Different oxidation states, (iv) Chemistry of transition elements as illustrated by different oxidation states of the following metals : Silver, Gold, Chromium, Manganese and Iron. Note: Numerical problems on principles involved in topics included in syllabus and on the volumetric exercises would be set.

UNIT – C
Valency of carbon and Hybridisation: (i) Tetra-Valency of carbon atom, Kekule, Vant-Hoff and Le-Bell theories, (ii) Orbital representation of covalent bond, multiple bonding (sigma bond: Pi bond), (iii) Hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3 Hybridization), (iv) Orbital structure of acetylene, ethyhlene and methane, (v) Concept of bond length, bond strength and bond angle, (vi) Electronegetivity inductive effect, polarity of covalent bond, formal charge, polarity of carbon, Halogen bond.

Structure and Reactivity: (i) Bond fission, Free radicals, Ions (Carbocations and carbanion), (ii) Acids and bases, Arrhenius concept, Bronsted-Lowry concept, Lewis concept, (iii) Nucleophilic and Electrophilic reagents, (iv) Types of Organic Reactions and their mechanism : Substitution Rearrangement Reaction, (v) Markvnikov’s Rule and Peroxide effect.

Pyrolysis: (i) Petroleum as a source of Hydrocarbons, (ii) Origin of Petroleum, (iii) Mining of Petroleum, (iv) Refinning of petroleum, (v) Artificial production of petrol (a) cracking (b) isomerization (c) synthetic method, (vi) Knocking , (vii) Octane number, (viii) Flash point.

(Grignard reagents) Organo Metallic compounds: (i) Organometallic compounds, definition, and preparation of Grignard reagents, (ii) Properties and synthetic uses of Grignard reagents.

Saturated Hydrocarbons (upto 5 carbon atoms): (i) Nomenclature and isomerism, (ii) General methods of preparation of alkanes, (iii) General properties and uses of alkanes, (iv) Individual members Propane, Butane, Pentane, (v) Interconversions of alkanes.

Unsaturated Hydrocarbons: (i) Nomenclature and isomerism, (ii) General methods of preparation of Alkenes and Alkynes, (iii) General properties and uses of alkenes and alkynes with reaction mechanism, (iv) Individual members, Propene, Butene, Propyne and Butyne.

Organic Chemistry based on functional groups a: (i) Halides, Nomenclature and isomerism, General methods of preparation of mono alkyl halides: General properties of mono alkyl halides with reaction mechanism. Preparations and properties of dihalogen derivatives, Synthetic uses of alkyl halides, (ii) Hydroxy compounds: Nomenclature and Isomerism; Classification of Monohydric alcohols; General methods of preparation of Monohydric alcohols; General properties and uses of Monohydric alcohols; Hydrogen bonding in alcohol and its effect on boiling point and solubility; Test for alcoholic groups; Inter conversion of methanol and ethanol.

Organic Chemistry based on functional groups b: (i) Carbonyl groups : Nomenclature and isomerism of aldehydes and ketones, General preparations of aldhydes and ketones, General properties and uses of aldehydes and ketones with reaction mechanism; Polarity of carbon-oxygen double bond; Test for adlehydes and ketones, (ii) Carboxylic group, Nomenclature and isomerism. General preparations of monocarboxylic acids, general properties and uses of carboxylic acid, hydrogen bonding in carboxylic acids, resonance.

Derivatives of monocarboxylic acids: (i) Kinds of acid derivatives (a) Acid chloride (b) Acidanhydride (c) Acid amides (d) Esters (ii) Effect of carbonyl group in acid derivatives, (iii) Properties and uses of (a) Acetyl chlorides (b) Acetic anhydride (c) Acetamide (d) Ethyl acetate.

Aliphatic amines: (i) Nomenclature and Isomerism, (ii) General methods of preparation of primary amines, (iii) General properties and uses of primary amines, (iv) Laboratory method of preparation of methyl amine and ethylamine, (v) Properties and uses of methylamine and ethylamine, (vi) Tests for amines.

Derivatives of carbonic acid urea: (i) Methods of preparations of urea, (ii) Properties and uses of urea.

Aromatic compounds: (i) Characteristics of Aromatic compounds, (ii) Nomenclature and isomerism, (iii) Substitution in Benzene ring, (iv) Preparations, properties and uses of Benzene (with reaction mechanism), (v) Preparation of Nitro benzene, (vi) Properties and uses of Nitrobenzene, Test for Nitrobenzene, (vii) Methods of preparation properties and uses of aniline, (viii) Test of aniline, (ix) Methods of preparation, properties and uses of phenol, (x) Test of phenol, (xi) Difference between alcohols and phenols.

Synthetic and Natural Polymers: (i) Classification of polymers, (ii) Some important natural and synthetic polymers with their general methods of preparation.

Chemistry in Action: (i) Dyes, (ii) Chemicals in medicines, (iii) Plant growth hormones, Pheromones, (iv) Fertility contraceptives, materials-chemo-sterilints.