RTU First year Syllabus and previous year papers of BASIC ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

105 BASIC ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
Unit 1
Basic Concepts of Electrical Engineering: Electric Current, Electromotive force, Electric Power, Ohm’s Law, Basic Circuit Components, Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction, Lenz’s Law, Kirchhoff’s laws, Network Sources, Resistive Networks, Series-Parallel Circuits, Node Voltage Method, Mesh Current Method, Superposition, Thevenin’s, Norton’s and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems.

Unit 2
Alternating Quantities: Introduction, Generation of AC Voltages, Root Mean Square and Average Value of Alternating Currents and Voltages, Form Factor and Peak Factor, Phasor Representation of Alternating Quantities, Single Phase RLC Circuits, Introduction to 3-Phase AC System.

Unit 3
Rotating Electrical Machines; DC Machines: Principle of Operation of DC Machine as Motor and Generator, EMF Equation, Applications of DC Machines.
AC Machines: Principle of Operation of 3-Phase Induction Motor, 3-Phase Synchronous Motor and 3- Phase Synchronous Generator (Alternator), Applications of AC Machines.

Unit 4
Basic Electronics: Conduction in Semiconductors, Conduction Properties of Semiconductor Diodes, Behaviour of the PN Junction, PN Junction Diode, Zener Diode, Photovoltaic Cell, Rectifiers, L, C, & L-C filters, Bipolar Junction Transistor, Field Effect Transistor, Transistor as an Amplifier.
Digital Electronics: Boolean algebra, Binary System, Logic Gates and Their Truth Tables.

Unit 5
Communication Systems: Introduction, IEEE Spectrum for Communication Systems, Types of Communication, Amplitude and frequency Modulation.
Instrumentation : Introduction to Transducers: Thermocouple, RTD, Strain Gauges, Load Cell and Bimetallic Strip. Introduction and classification of ICs.

RTU First year Syllabus and previous year papers of ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY

104 ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY

Unit 1
General Aspects of Fuel: Organic fuels, Origin, classification and general aspects of fossil fuels. Solid fuels, Coal, carbonization of coal, manufacturing of coke by Beehive oven and by product oven method. Liquid fuels, Composition of petroleum, advantages and refining of petroleum. Cracking, reforming, polymerization and isomerization of refinery products. Synthetic petrol, Bergius and Fischer Tropsch process. Knocking, octane number and anti-knocking agents. Gaseous fuels, Advantages, manufacturing, composition and calorific value of coal, gas and oil gas.

Unit 2
Fuels Analyses: Ultimate and proximate analysis of coal, Determination of calorific value of solid and gaseous fuels by bomb and Junker’s Calorimeter respectively. Calculations of calorific value based on Dulong’s formula. Combustion, requirement of oxygen/ air in combustion process. Flue gas analysis by Orsat’s apparatus and its significance.

Unit 3
Polymers: Different methods of classification, basic ideas of polymerization mechanisms. Elastomers: Natural rubber, vulcanization, Synthetic Rubbers viz. Buna-S, Buna-N, Butyl and neoprene rubbers.
New Engineering Materials: Fullerenes: Introduction, properties, preparation and uses. Organic Electronic Materials (including conducting polymers- poly (p-phenylene), polythiophenes, Polyphenylene, vinylenes, polypyroles, polyaniline).

Unit 4
Cement: Definition, Composition, basic constituents and their significance, Manufacturing of Portland cement by Rotary Kiln Technology, Chemistry of setting and hardening of cement and role of gypsum.
Glass: Definition, Properties, Manufacturing of glass and importance of annealing in glass making, Types of silicate glasses and their commercial uses, Optical fiber grade glass.

Unit 5
Refractory: Definition, classification, properties, Requisites of good refractory and manufacturing of refractory. Preparation of Silica and fire clay refractory with their uses. Seger’s (Pyrometric) Cone Test and RUL Test
Lubricants: Introduction, classification and uses of lubricants. Types of lubrication. Viscosity & viscosity index, flash and fire point, cloud and pour point, steam emulsification number, precipitation number and neutralization number.

RTU First year Syllabus and previous year papers of ENGINEERING PHYSICS-I

103 ENGINEERING PHYSICS-I

Unit 1
Interference of light
Michelson’s Interferometer: Production of circular & straight line fringes, Determination of wavelength of light, Determination of wavelength separation of two nearby wavelengths.
Newton’s rings and measurement of wavelength of light.
Optical technology: Elementary idea of anti-reflection coating and interference filters.

Unit 2
Polarization of light
Plane circular and elliptically polarized light on the basis of electric (light) vector, Malus law.
Double Refraction: Qualitative description of double refraction phase retardation plates, quarter and half wave plates, construction, working and use of these in production and detection of circularly and elliptically polarized light.
Optical Activity: Optical activity and laws of optical rotation, Specific rotation and its measurement using half-shade and bi-quartz devices.

Unit 3
Diffraction of light
Single slit diffraction: Quantitative description of single slit, position of maxima / minima and width of central maximum, intensity variation.
Diffraction Grating: Construction and theory, Formation of spectrum by plane transmission grating, Determination of wavelength of light using plane transmission grating.
Resolving power: Geometrical & Spectral, Raleigh criterion, Resolving power of diffraction grating and telescope.

Unit 4
Elements of Material Science
Bonding in Solids: Covalent bonding and Metallic bonding.
Classification of Solids as Insulators, Semiconductors and Conductors.
Semiconductors: Conductivity in Semiconductors, Determination of Energy gap of Semiconductor.
X-Ray diffraction and Bragg’s Law.
Hall Effect: Theory, Hall Coefficient and applications.

Unit 5
Special Theory of Relativity
Postulates of special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformations, relativity of length, mass and time.
Relativistic velocity addition and mass-energy relation, Relativistic Energy and momentum.

RTU First year Syllabus and previous year papers of ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS-I

102 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS-I

Unit 1

Differential Calculus:Asymptotes(Cartesian Coordinates Only), Curvature(Cartesian Coordinates Only), Concavity, Convexity and Point of Inflexion (Cartesian Coordinates Only), Curve Tracing (Cartesian and Standard Polar Curves-Cardioids, Lemniscates of Bernoulli, Limacon, Equiangular Spiral).

Unit 2

Differential Calculus: Partial Differentiation, Euler’s Theorem on Homogeneous Functions, Approximate Calculations, Maxima & Minima of Two and More Independent Variables, Lagrange’s Method of Multipliers.

Unit 3

Integral Calculus: Surface and Volumes of Solids of Revolution, Double Integral, Double Integral by changing into polar form , Areas & Volumes by Double Integration ,Change of Order of Integration, Beta Function and Gamma Function (Simple Properties).

Unit 4

Differential Equations: Differential Equations of First Order and First Degree - Linear Form, Reducible to Linear form, Exact Form, Reducible to Exact Form, Linear Differential Equations of Higher Order with Constant Coefficients Only.

Unit 5

Differential Equations: Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations with Variables Coefficients, Homogeneous and Exact Forms, Change of Dependent Variable, Change of Independent Variable, Method of Variation of Parameters.

RTU First year Syllabus and previous year papers of COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

101 COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

Unit 1

Grammar

1. Tenses

2. Passive Voice

3. Indirect Speech

4. Conditional Sentences

5. Modal Verbs

Unit 2

Composition

1. Dialogue Writing

2. Paragraph and Precis Writing

3. Report, its importance and Report Writing

Unit 3

Short Stories

1. The Luncheon: W.S. Maugham

2. How Much Land Does a Man Need?: Leo Tolstoy

3. The Last Leaf: O. Henry

Unit 4

Essays

1. On the Rule of the Road: A. G. Gardiner

2. The Gandhian Outlook: S. Radhakrishnan

3. Our Own Civilisation: C.E.M. Joad

Unit 5

Poems

1. The Unknown Citizen: W. H. Auden

2. The Character of A Happy Life: Sir Henry Wotton

3. No Men are Foreign: James Kirkup

4. If : Rudyard Kipling