AIEEE Examination Syllabus

Syllabus for AIEEE
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Aptitute in Architecture




Biology (Botany & Zoology)
Unit 1: The Living World
Nature and scope of Biology, Methods of Biology. Our place in the universe. Laws that govern the universe and life levels of organization. Causes and effect relationship. Being alive—what it means? Present approach to understand life processes—molecular approach; life as an expression of energy; steady state and homeostasis; self duplication and survival, adaptation; death as a positive part of life. Origin of life and its maintenance. Origin and diversity of life. Physical and chemcial principles that maintain life process, the living crust and interdependence. The positive and negative aspects of progress in biological sciences. The future of the living world, identification of human responsibility in shaping our future.




Unit 2: Unity of Life
Cell as unit of life. Small biomolecules; water, minerals, mono-and oligosaccharides, lipids, amino acids, nucleotides and their chemistry, cellular location and function. Macromolecules in cells their chemistry, cellular location and functional significance. Polysaccharides, proteins and nucleic acids. Enzymes; chemical nature, classification, mechanism in action-enzyme complex, allosteric modulation (brief), irreversible activation. Biomembranes. Fluid mosaic model of membrane in transport and recognition of external information (brief). Structural organisation of the cell; light and electron microscopic views of cell, its organelles and their functions; Nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum. Golgi complex, Lysosomes, microtubules, cell wall, cilia and flagella, vacuoles, cell inclusions. A general account of cellular respiration. Fermentation, biological oxidation, mitochondrial electron transport chain, high energy bonds and oxidative phosphorylation, cell reproduction; Process of mitosis and meiosis.



Unit 3: Diversity of Life
Introduction. The enormous variety of living things, the need for classification to cope with this variety; taxonomy and phylogeny; shortcoming of a two kingdom classification as plants and animals; a five kingdom classification. Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi and Animalia. The basic features of five kingdom classification; modes of obtaining nutrition—autotrophs and heterotrophs. Life styles: producers, consumers and decomposers, Unicellularity and multicellularity, phylogenetic relationships. Concepts of species, taxon and categories-hierachical levels of classification; binomial nomenlature; principles of classification and nomenclature; identification and nature of viruses and bacteriophages and organisms. Kingdom Monera—archaebacteria-life in extreme environments; Bacteria, actinomycetes, Cyanobacteria. Example to illustrate autotrophic and heterotrophic life style; mineralizer-nitrogen fixers; Monera in cycling matter; symbiotic forms; disease producers. Kingdom Protista-Eucarytoic unicellular organisms; development of flagelea and cilia; beginning of mitosis; syngamy and sex. Various life styles shown in the major phyla. Evolutionary precursors of complex life forms. Diatoms, dinoflagellates, slime moulds, protozen, symbiotic forms. Plant kingdom—complex autotrophs, red, brown and green algae; conquest of land, bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms Vascularization; development of flower, fruit and seed. Kingdom fungi-lower fungi (Zygomycetes) higher fungi (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes); the importance of fungi, Decomposers; parasitic forms; lichens and mycorrhizae, animal kingdom-animal body pattern and symmetry. The development of body cavity in invertebrate vertebrate phyla. Salient feature with reference to habitat and examples of phylum porifera, coelenterata, helminths, annelids, mollusca, arthropoda, enchinoderms; chordata (classes—fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) highlighting major characters.



Unit 4: Organism and Environment
Species: Origin and concpet of species, population; interaction between environment and populations; community. Biotic community, interaction between different species, biotic stability, changes in the community-succession. Ecosystem; Interaction between biotic and abiotic components; major ecosystems; manmade ecosystem—Agroecosystem. Biosphere; flow of energy, trapping of solar energy, energy pathway, food chain, food web, biogeochemical cycles, calcium and sulphur, ecological imbalance and its consequences. Conservation of natural resources; renewable and non-renewable (in brief). Water and land management, wasteland development. Wild life and forest conservation; causes for the extinction of some wild life, steps taken to conserve the remaining species, concept of endangered species—Indian examples, conservation of forest; Indian forests, importance of forests, hazards of deforestation, afforestation. Environmental pollution, air and water pollution, sources, major pollutants of big cities of our country, their effects and methods of control, pollution due to nuclear fallout and waste disposal, effect and control, noise pollution—sources and effects.



Unit 5: Multicellularity : Structure and Function—Plant Life
Form and function. Tissue system in flowering plants; meristematic and permanent. Minerals nutrition—essential elements, major functions of different elements, passive and active uptake of minerals, Modes of nutrition, transport of solutes water in plants, and photosynthesis photo chemical biosynthetic phases, diversity in photosynthetic path ways; Photosynthetic electron transport and photophosphoryliation, photorespriation. Transpiration and exchange of gases. Stomatal mechanism. Osmergualation in plants; water relations in plant cells, water potential, Reproduction and development in Angiosperm plants; asexual and sexual. Structure and functions of flower; development of male and female gametophytes in angiosperms, pollination, fertilization and development of endosperm, embryo, seed and fruit. Differentiation and organ formation. Plant hormones and growth regulation; action of plant hormones in relation to seed dormancy and germination, apical dominance. senescence and abscission. Applications of synthetic growth regulators. A brief account of growth and movement in plants.



Unit 6: Multicelluarity: Structure and Function—Animal Life
Animal tissues, epithelial, connective, muscular, nerve. Animal nutrition; organs of digestion and digestive process, nutritional requirements for carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins:nutritional imbalances and deficiency diseases. Gas exchange and transport : Pulmonary gas exchange and organs involved, transport of gases in blood, gas exchange in aqueous media. Circulation:closed and open vascular systems, structure and pumping action of heart, arterial blood pressure, lymph. Excretion and osmoregulation. Ammonotelism, Ureotelism, uricotelism, excretion of water and urea with special reference to man. Role of kidney in regulation of plasma, osmolarity of mammals, role of hormones as messengers and regulators. Nervous coordination: central, autonomic and peripheral nervous systems, receptors, effectors, reflex action, basic physiology of special senses, integrative control by neuroendocirnal sytems. Locomotion, joints, muscle movements, types of skeletal muscles according to types of movement, basic aspects of human skeleton. Reproduction; human reproduction, female reproductive cycles. Embrynoic development in mammals (upto three germ layers).



Unit 7: Continuity of Life
Heredity and variation: Introduction, Mendel's experiments with peas and idea of factors. Mendel's laws of inheritance. Genes:Packaging of heredity material in prokaryotes—bacterial chromosome; plasmid and eukaryote chromosomes. Extranuclear genes, viral genes, linkage (genetic) maps. Sex determination and sex linkage. Genetic material and its replication. Gene expression; genetic code, transcription, translation, gene regulation, Molecular basis of differentiation.



Unit 8: Origin and Evolution of Life
Origin of life: Living and non-living, chemical evolution, organic evolution; Oparin ideas, Miller-Urey experiments. Intererlationship among living organisms and evidence of evolution:fossil records including geological time scale, Morphological evidence—homology, vestigial organs, embryological similarities and biogeographical evidence. Darwin 's two major contributions. Common origin of living organisms and recombination as sources of variability, selection acts upon variation, adapation (Ledergerg's replica plating experiment for indirect selection of bacterial mutants), reproductive isolation, specication. Role of selection change and drift in determining compositon of population. Selected examples : industrial melanism; drug resistance, mimicry, malaria in realtion to G-6-PD deficiency and sickle cell disease. Mutation-Their role in speciation. Their orign in speciation, their origin in organisms.



Unit 9: Application of Biology
Biofertilisers—green manure, crop residues and nitrogen fixation (symbiotic, non-symbiotic). Applications of tissue culture and genetic engineering in crops. Domestication and introduction of animals. Livestock, poultry, fisheries (fresh water, marine, acqaculture). Improvement of animals; principles of animal breeding. Major animal diseases and their control. Insects and their products (silk, honey, wax and lac). Bioenergy, biomass, wood (combustion, gasification, ethanol). Cow dung-cakes, gobar gas plants as sources of hydrocarbons for producing petroleum, ethanol from starch and lignocellulose. Biotechnology, a brief historical account-manufacture of cheese, yoghurt, alcohol, yeast, vitamins, organic acids, antibiotics, steroids, dextrins. Scaling up laboratory findings to industrial production. Production of insulin, human growth hormones, interferon. Communicable diseases including diseases spread through blood transfusion (hepatitis, AIDS etc) Immune response, vaccines and antisera. Allergies and inflammations. Inherited diseases and dysfunctions. sex-linked diseases, genetic incompatibilities, and genetic consulelling. Cancer—major types, causes, diagnosis and treatment. Tissue and organ transplantation. Industrial wstes, toxicology, pollution-related diseases. Biomedical engineering-spare parts for man, instrucments for diagnosis of diseases and care.





Chemistry
Unit 1: Some Basic concepts
Measurement in chemistry (Precision, significant figures, SI units, Dimensional analysis). Laws of chemical combination. Atomic Mass, Molecular Mass, mole concept, Molar Mass, determination of Molecular formula. Chemical equation, stoichiometry of Chemical reactions.

Unit 2: States of Matter
Gaseous state, measurable properties of gases, Boyle's Law, Charle's Law and absolute scale of temperature, Avogadro's hypothesis, ideal gas equation, Dalton's law of partial pressures.

Kinetic molecular theory of gases (the microscopic model of gas), deviation form ideal behaviour.

The solid state (classification of solids, X-ray studies of crystal lattices and unit cells, packing of constituent particles in crystals). Imperfection in solids, electrical, magnetic and dielectic properties of solids. Liquid state (Properties of liquids, Vapour pressure, Surface tension, Viscosity).

Unit 3: Atomic Structure
Constituents of the atom (discovery of electron, rutherford model of the atom).

Electronic structure of atoms – nature of light and electromagnetic waves, atomic spectra, bohr's model of hydrogen, shortcomings of the bohr model

Dual nature of matter and radiation. de-Broglie relation. The uncertainty principle, Quantum Mechanical Model of the atom, Orbitals and Quantum numbers. Shapes of orbitals. Aufbau principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund's Rule, Electronic Configuration of atoms.

Unit 4: Solutions
Types of solutions, Units of concentration, Vapour-pressure of solutions and Raoult's law. Colligative properties. Determination of molecular mass. Non-ideal solutions and abnormal molecular masses. Volumetric analysis-concentration unit.

Unit 5: Chemical Energetics and Thermodynamics
Energy changes during a chemical reaction, Internal energy and Enthalpy, Internal energy and Enthalpy changes, Origin of Enthalpy change in a reaction, Hess's Law of constant heat summation, numericals based on these concepts. Enthalpies of reactions(Enthalpy of neutralization, Enthalpy of combustion, Enthalpy of fusion and vaporization).

Sources of energy (conservation of energy sources and identification of alternative sources, pollution associated with consumption of fuels. The sun as the primary source).

First law of thermodynamics; Relation between Internal energy and Enthalpy, application of first law of thermodynamics.

Second law of thermodynamics : Entropy, Gibbs energy, Spontaneity of a chemical reaction, Gibbs energy change and chemical equilibrium, Gibbs energy available for useful work.

Unit 6: Chemical Equilibrium
Equilibria involving physical changes (solid-liquid, liquid-gas equilibrium involving dissolution of solids in liquids, gases in liquids, general characteristics of equilibrium involving physical processes).

Equilibria involving chemical systems (the law of chemical equilibrium, the magnitude of the equilibrium constant, numerical problems).

Effect of changing conditions of systems at equilibrium (change of concentration, change of temperature, effect of catalyst-Le Chateliar's principle).

Equilibria involving ions ­­-- ionization of electrolytes, weak and strong electrolytes, acid-base equilibrium, various concepts of acids and bases, ionization of water, pH scale, solubility product, numericals based on these concepts.

Unit 7: Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry
Oxidation and reduction as an electron transfer concept. Redox reactions in aqueous solutions-electrochemical cells. EMF of a galvanic cell. Dependence of EMF on concentration and temperature (NERNST equation and numerical problems based on it). Electrolysis, Oxidation number (rules for assigning oxidation number, redox reactions in terms of oxidation number, nomenclature). Balancing of oxidation-reduction equations.

Electrolytic conduction. Molar conductivity, Kohlrausch's Law and its applications, Voltaic cell, Electrode potential and Electromotive force, Gibb's energy change and cell potential. Electrode potential and products of electrolysis, Fuel cells, corrosion and its prevention.

Unit 8: Rates of Chemical Reactions and Chemical Kinetics
Rate of reaction, Instantaneous rate of reaction and order of reaction. Factors affecting rates of reactions - factors affecting rate of collisions encountered between the reactant molecules, effect of temperature on the reaction rate, concept of activation energy, catalyst. Effect of light on rates of reactions. Elementary reactions as steps to more complex reactions. How fast are chemical reactions?

Rate law expression. Order of a reaction (with suitable examples). Units of rates and specific rate constants. Order of reaction and effect of concentration (study will be confined to first order only). Temperature dependence of rate constant – Fast reactions (only elementary idea). Mechanism of reaction (only elementary idea). Photochemical reactions.

Unit 9: Surface Chemistry
Surfaces : Adsorption – Physical and chemical adsorption, adsorption isotherms

Colloids – Preparation and general properties, Emulsions, Micelles
Catalysis : Homogeneous and heterogeneous, structure of catalyst, Enzymes, Zeolites

Unit 10: Chemical Families – Periodic Properties
Modern periodic law, Types of elements – Representative elements (s & p block), Transition elements –d-block elements, inner transition elements – f-block elements). Periodic trends in properties – ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, atomic radii, valence, periodicity in properties of compounds).

Unit 11: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Chemical bonds and Lewis structure, shapes of molecules (VSEPR theory). Quantum theory of the covalent bond, hydrogen and some other simple molecules, carbon compounds, hybridization, Boron and Beryllium compounds.

Coordinate covalent bond, ionic bond as an extreme case of polar covalent bond, ionic character of molecules and polar molecules. Bonding in solid state ionic, molecular and covalent solids, metals). Hydrogen bond, Resonance.

Molecules: Molecular orbital. Theory – bond order and magnetic properties of H2, O2, N2, F2 on the basis of MOT. Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals (including shapes of simple organic molecules), Dipole moment and structure of molecules.

Unit 12: Chemistry of Non-metals – I
Hydrogen ( unique position in periodic table, occurrence, isotopes, properties, reactions and uses), Hydrides – molecular, soline and interstitial

Oxygen (occurrence, preparation, properties and reactions, uses), simple oxides; ozone

Water and hydrogen peroxide, structure of water molecule and its aggregates, physical and chemical properties of water, hard and soft water, water softening, hydrogen peroxide – preparation, properties, structure and uses.

Nitrogen – Preparation, properties, uses, compounds of Nitrogen – Ammonia, Oxides of Nitrogen, Nitric Acid – preparation, properties and uses.

Unit 13: Chemistry of Non-Metals – II
Boron – occurrence, isolation, physical and chemical properties, borax and boric acid, uses of boron and its compounds.

Carbon, inorganic compounds of carbon – oxides, halides, carbides, elemental carbon.

Silicon – occurrence, preparation and properties, oxides and oxyacids of phosphorus, chemical fertililzers.

Sulphur – occurrence and extraction, properties and reactions, oxides, Sulphuric acid – preparation, properties and uses, sodium thiosulphate.

Halogens – occurrence, preparation, properties, hydrogen halides, uses of halogens.

Noble gases – discovery, occurrence and isolation, physical properties, chemistry of noble gases and their uses.

Unit 14: Chemistry of lighter Metals
Sodium and Potassium – occurrence and extraction, properties and uses. Important compounds – NaCl, Na2CO3, NaHCO3, NaOH, KCI, KOH.

Magnesium and calcium – occurrence and extraction, properties and uses. Important compounds MgCl2, MgSO4, CaO, Ca(OH)2, CaCO3, CaSO4, plaster of paris , Bleaching Powder.

Aluminium – occurrence, extraction, properties and uses, compounds – AlCl3, alums. Cement.

Biological role of Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium.

Unit 15: Heavy Metals
Iron – Occurrence and extraction, compounds of iron, oxides, halides, sulphides, sulphate, alloy and steel.

Copper and silver – occurrence and extraction, properties and uses, compounds – sulphides, halides and sulphates, photography.

Zinc and Mercury –occurrence and extraction, properties and uses, compounds -oxides, halides; sulphides and sulphates

Tin and Lead – occurrence and extraction, properties and uses, compounds – oxides, sulphides, halides.

Unit 16: Chemistry of Representative Elements
Periodic properties – Trends in groups and periods (a) Oxides-nature (b) Halides-melting points (c) Carbonates and sulphates – solubility.

The chemistry of s and p block elements, electronic configuration, general characteristic properties and oxidation states of the following :-

Group 1 elements – Alkali metals
Group 2 elements – Alkaline earth metals
Group 13 elements – Boron family
Group 14 elements – Carbon family
Group 15 elements – Nitrogen family
Group 16 elements – Oxygen family
Group 17 elements – Halogen family
Group 18 elements – Noble gases and Hydrogen


Unit 17: Transition Metals including Lanthanides
Electronic configuration: General characteristic properties, oxidation states of transition metals. First row transition metals and general properties of their compounds-oxides, halides and sulphides.

General properties of second and third row transition elements (Groupwise discussion).

Preparation and reactions, properties and uses of Potassium dichromate and Potassium permanganate. Inner Transition

Elements: General discussion with special reference to oxidation states and lanthanide contraction.

Unit 18: Coordination Chemistry and Organo Metallics
Coordination compounds, Nomenclature : Isomerism in coordination compounds; Bonding in coordination compounds, Werner's coordination theory. Applications of coordination compounds.

Unit 19: Nuclear Chemistry
Nature of radiations from radioactive substances. Nuclear reactions; Radioactive disintegration series; Artificial transmutation of elements; Nuclear fission and Nuclear fusion: Isotopes and their applications: Radio carbon-dating.

Unit 20: Purification and Characterisation of Organic Compounds
Purification (crystallization, sublimation, distillation, differential extraction, chromatography).

Qualitative analysis, detection of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and halogens.

Quantitative analysis – estimation of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, halogens, sulphur, phosphorus (basic principles only)

Determination of molecular mass – Silver salt method, cholroplatinate salt method

Calculation of empirical formula and molecular formula.

Numerical problems in organic quantitative analysis, modern methods of structure elucidation.

Unit 21: Some Basic Principles
Classification of Organic Compounds.
Tetravalency of Carbon. Homologous series. Functional groups– –C = C –, – C C –, and groups containing halogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur. General introduction to naming organic compounds – Common names and IUPAC nomenclature of alphatic, aromatic and Cyclic Compounds. Illustration with examples of Compounds having not more than three same or different functional groups/atoms. Isomerism – Structural and stereoisomerism (geometrical and optical). Chirality – Isomerism in Compounds having one and two chiral Centres. Enantiomers, diastereoisomers, racemic forms, racemisation & resolution.

Covalent bond fission – Homolytic and Heterolytic : free radicals carbocations and carbanions. Stability of Carbocations and free-radicals. Electrophiles and Nucleophiles.

Electron displacement in a covalent bond – inductive effect, electromeric effect, resonance

Common types of organic reactions – Substitution, addition, elimination and rearrangement reactions. Illustrations with examples.

Unit 22: Hyderocarbons
Classification. Sources of hydrocarbons:
Alkanes - General methods of preparation (from unsatmated hydrocarbons, alkylhalides, aldehydes, ketones and carburoxylic acids). Physical properties and reactions (Substitution, oxidation and miscellaneous). Conformations of alkanes(ethane, popane butane) and cyclohexane, sawhorse and Newman projections) – mechanism of halogaration of alkanes.

Alkanes and Alkynes - General methods of preparation physical properties, Chemical reactions – Mechanism of electrophilic addition reactions in alkenes – Markowni Koff's Rule, peroxide effect. Acidic character of alkynes. Polymerisation of alkenes.

Aromatic hydrocarbons - Benzene and its homologues, Isomerism, Chemical reactions of bonzene. Structure of bonzene, resonance. Directive influence of substituents.

Petroleum - HydroCarbons from Petroleum, Cracking and reforming, quality of gasoline – Octane number, gasoline additives.

Unit 23: Organic Compounds Containing Halogens
(Haloalkanes and Haloarenes)
Methods of preparation, physical properties and reactions.
Preparation, properties and uses of Chloroform and Iodoform.

Unit 24: Organic compounds containing Oxygen
General methods of preparation, correlation of physical properties with their structures, chemical properties and uses of Alchols, polyhydric alcohols, Ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, Phenol, Benzaldehyde and Benzoic acid – their important methods of preparation and reactions. Acidity of carboxylic acids and phenol effect of substituents on the acidity of carboxylic acids.

Unit 25: Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen
(Cyanides, isocyanides, nitrocompounds and amines)
Nomenclature and classification of amines, cyanides, isocyanides, nitrocompounds and their methods of preparation; correlation of their physical properties with structure, chemical reactions and uses – Basicity of amines

Unit 26: Synthetic and Natural Polymers
Classification of Polymers, natural and synthetic polymers (with stress on their general methods of preparation) and important uses of the following :

Teflon, PVC, Polystyrene, Nylon-66, terylene, Bakelite

Unit 27: Bio Molecules and Biological Processes
The Cell and Energy Cycle
Carbohydrates : Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Polysaccharides
Amino acids and Peptides – Structure and classification.
Proteins and Enzymes – Structure of Proteins, Role of enzymes.
Nucleic Acids – DNA and RNA
Biological functions of Nucleic acids – Protein synthesis and replication
Lipids – Structure, membranes and their functions.

Unit 28: Chemistry in Action
Dyes, Chemicals in medicines (antipyretic, analgesic, antibiotics & tranquilisers), Rocket propellants.

(Structural formulae non-evaluative)

Unit 29: Environmental Chemistry
Environmental pollutants; soil, water and air pollution; major atmospheric pollutants; acid rain, Ozone and its reactions causing ozone layer depletion, effects of the depletion of ozone layer, industrial air pollution.





Physics
Unit 1: Units And Measurement
Units for measurement, system of units – S.I., fundamental and derived units. Dimensions and their applications.

Unit 2: Description Of Motion In One Dimenstion
Motion in a straight line, uniform and non-uniform motion, their graphical representation. Uniformly accelerated motion, and its applications

Unit 3: Description Of Motion In Two And Three Dimensions
Scalars and vectors, vector addition, a real number, zero vector and its properties. Resolution of vectors. Scalar and vector products, uniform circular motion and its applications projectile motion.

Unit 4: Laws Of Motion
Force and inertia – Newton 's Laws of Motion. Conservation of linear momentum and its applications, rocket propulsion, friction – laws of friction

Unit 5 Work, Energy And Power
Concept of work, energy and power. Energy – kinetic and potential. Conservation of energy and its applications, Elastic collisions in one and two dimensions. Different forms of energy.

Unit 6: Rotational Motion And Moment Of Inertia
Centre of mass of a two-particle system. Centre of mass of a rigid body, general motion of a rigid body, nature of rotational motion, torque, angular momentum, its conservation and applications. Moment of Inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorem, expression of moment of inertia for ring, disc and sphere.

Unit 7: Gravitation
Acceleration due to gravity, one and two-dimensional motion under gravity. Universal law of gravitation, variation in the acceleration due to gravity of the earth. Planetary motion, Kepler's laws, artificial satellite – geostationary satellite, gravitational potential energy near the surface of earth, gravitational potential and escape velocity.

Unit 8: Solids And Fluids
Inter-atomic and Inter-molecular forces, states of matter.

Solids : Elastic properties, Hook's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity.
Liquids : Cohesion and adhesion. Surface energy and surface tension. Flow of fluids, Bernoulli's theorem and its applications. Viscosity, Stoke's Law, terminal velocity.
Unit 9: Oscillations
Periodic motion, simple harmonic motion and its equation of motion, energy in S.H.M., Oscillations of a spring and simple pendulum.

Unit 10: Waves
Wave motion, speed of a wave, longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves, progressive and standing waves, free and forced Oscillations, resonance, vibration of strings and air-columns, beats, Doppler effect.

Unit 11: Heat And Thermodynamics
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases and their specific heats, Relationship between Cp and Cv for gases, first law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic processes. Second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, efficiency of heat engines.

Unit 12: Transference Of Heat
Modes of transference of heat. Thermal conductivity. Black body radiations, Kirchoff's Law, Wien's law, Stefan's law of radiation and Newton 's law of cooling.

Unit 13: Electrostatics
Electric charge – its unit and conservation, Coulomb's law, dielectric constant, electric field, lines of force, field due to dipole and its behaviour in a uniform electric field, electric flux, Gauss's theorem and its applications. Electric potential, potential due to a point charge. Conductors and insulators, distribution of charge on conductors. Capacitance, parallel plate capacitor, combination of capacitors, energy of capacitor.

Unit 14: Current Electricity
Electric current and its unit, sources of energy, cells- primary and secondary, grouping of cells resistance of different materials, temperature dependence, specific resistivity, Ohm's law, Kirchoff's law, series and parallel circuits. Wheatstone Bridge with their applications and potentiometer with their applications.

Unit 15: Thermal And Chemical Effects Of Currents
Heating effects of current, electric power, simple concept of thermo-electricity – Seeback effect and thermocouple, Chemical effect of current – Faraday's laws of electrolysis.

Unit 16: Magnetic Effects Of Currents
Oersted's experiment, Bio-Savert's law, magnetic field due to straight wire, circular loop and solenoid, force on a moving charge in a uniform magnetic field (Lorentz force), forces and torques on currents in a magnetic field, force between two current carrying wires, moving coil galvanometer and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

Unit 17: Magnetostatics
Bar magnet, magnetic field, lines of force, torque on a bar magnet in a magnetic field, earth's magnetic field, para, dia and ferro magnetism, magnetic induction, magnetic susceptibility.

Unit 18: Electromagnetic Induction And Alternating Currents
Induced e.m.f., Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law, Self and Mutual Inductance, alternating currents, impedance and reactance, power In a.c. Circuits with L.C. And R Series Combination, resonant circuits. Transformer and A.C. generator.

Unit 19: Ray Optics
Reflection and refraction of light at plane and curved surfaces, total internal reflection, optical fibre; deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Lens formula, magnification and resolving power; microscope and telescope.

Unit 20: Wave Optics
Wave nature of light; Interference – Young's double slit experiment. Diffraction - diffraction due to a single slit. Elementary idea of polarization.

Unit 21: Electromagnetic Waves
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, Electromagnetic wave spectrum from gamma to radio waves – propagation of EM waves in atmosphere.

Unit 22: Electron And Photons
Charge on an electron, e/m for an electron, photoelectric effect and Einstein's equation of photoelectric effect.

Unit 23: Atoms, Molecules And Nuclei
Alpha - particles scattering experiment, Atomic masses, size of the nucleus; radioactivity; Alpha, beta and gamma particles/ rays and their properties, radioactive decay law, half life and mean life of radio-active nuclei, binding energy, mass energy relationship, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

Unit 24: Solids And Semi-Conductors Devices
Energy bands in solids, conductors, insulators and semi-conductors, pn junction, diodes, diode as rectifier, transistor action, transistor as an amplifier.





Aptitude Test In Architecture
Part I Awareness of persons, places, buildings etc. of Architectural importance. Visualising three dimensional objects from two dimensional drawings. Visualsing different sides of three dimensional objects. Identifying commonly used materials and objects based on their textural qualities and colour. Analytical reasoning Mental ability.

Part II Three dimensional perception. Understanding and appreciation of scale and proportion of objects, building forms and elements, colour texture, harmony and contrast.

Design and drawing of geometrical or abstract shapes and patterns in pencil. Transformation of forms both 2D and 3D - union, substraction, rotation, development of surfaces and volumes; Generation of plan, elevations and 3D views of objects. Creating two dimensional and three dimensional compositions using given shapes and forms.

Sketching of scenes and activities from memory of urban-scape (public space, market, festivals, street scenes, monuments, recreational spaces etc.), landscape (river fronts, jungles, gardens, trees, plants etc.) and rural life.

Candidates should take pencils, own geometry box set, erasers and colour pencils and crayons for the Aptitude Test.