VTUEEE Phase 2 Slot 1 2025 Syllabus

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Mechanics

• Uniform and non-uniform motion
• Motion in a plane
• Newton’s first, second, and third law of motion
• Law of friction
• Angular momentum

Properties of matter

• Universal law of gravitation
• Escape/orbital velocity
• Geostationary satellites
• Kepler’s law of planetary motion
• Hooke’s law

Heat and thermodynamics

• Kinetic theory of gases
• Kinetic energy and temperature
• RMS speed of gas molecules
• Stokes law

Optics

• Reflection of light
• Spherical mirrors
• Refraction of light
• Thin lens formula
• Magnification
• Polarized light

Electricity

• Electric current
• Ohm’s law
• Kirchoff’s law
• Lenz’s law
• Electromagnetic induction

Magnetism

• Biot-Savart law (its application)
• Ampere’s law (its application)
• Magnetic field lines

Atomic physics

• Atomic structure
• Rutherford’s atomic model
• Bohr’s model
• Particle nature of light

Nuclear Physics

• Nuclear properties
• Radioactivity, alpha, beta and gamma rays (their properties)
• Nuclear fission & fusion

Electronic devices

• Semiconductors
• Characteristics of transistor
• Transistor as an amplifier & oscillator

Laser and optic fiber

• Interaction of radiation with matter
• Essentials and types of laser
• Semiconductor laser
• Application of laser

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Basic concepts of chemistry

• Matters, its nature
• Chemical combination laws
• Atomic/molecular masses

P, D, S and F block elements

• 1 and 2 group elements
• Electronic configuration
• Physical and chemical properties general trends
• Actinides
• Lanthanides

Solid state chemistry and coordination chemistry

• IUPAC nomenclature
• Isomerism
• Coordination compounds theories
• Imperfection in solids

Chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, thermodynamics

• First and second law of thermodynamics
• Gibb’s free energy
• Mass action law

Redox reactions and electrochemistry

• Redox reactions
• Oxidation number
• Kohlrausch’s law
• Nernst equation (its application)
• Cell potential & gibbs energy change relationship

Characterization and purification of organic compounds

• Purification
• Organic quantitative analysis (numerical problems)
• Calculations of empirical formulae

Basic principles of organic chemistry

• Shapes of simple molecules
• Hybridization
• Organic compounds classification
• Types of organic reactions

Hydrocarbons

• Alkanes
• Alkynes
• Aromatic hydrocarbons
• Isomerism

Organic compounds containing oxygen

• Mechanism of substitution reactions
• Nature, properties, preparation of C-X bond

Biomolecules

• Aldoses/ketones
• Classification and function of vitamins
• Enzymes

Polymers

• General methods and classification of polymerization
• Synthetic and natural rubber

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Partial functions

• Non repeated and repeated linear factors
• Non repeated irreducible quadratic factors

Complex numbers

• Algebra of complex numbers
• Argument and modulus of complex number
• Square root of a complex number

Quadratic equations

• Nature of roots
• Roots and coefficients relationship
• Formation of quadratic with given roots

Matrices and determinants

• Matrices
• Orthogonal matrices
• Properties of determinants
• Types of matrices

Trigonometry

• Trigonometric identities/functions
• Inverse trigonometric functions (their properties)

Permutations and combinations

• Counting and its fundamental principles
• Meaning of NPR and NCR simple problems

Binomial theorem for a positive index

• Binomial coefficients (their properties)
• General and middle term

Two dimensional coordinate geometry

• Equation of a circle
• Parallel/perpendicular lines
• Equation of a tangent

Vector algebra

• Scalars/vectors
• Vector/scalar products
• Parallel/perpendicular vectors

Limit, differentiability and continuity

• Simple functions graphs
• Quotient and product of 2 functions
• Applications of derivatives

Integration

• Integration by partial function
• Bernoulli rule
• Definite integrals (its properties)

Ordinary differential equations

• Formation of differential equations
• Solution of differential equations

Probability and set theory

• Sets and their representatives
• Bernoulli trials
• Binomial distribution