ISAT 2012 Syllabus

MATHEMATICS

UNIT 1: SETS, RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS

UNIT 2: COMPLEX NUMBERS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS

UNIT 3: MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS

UNIT 4: PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

UNIT 5: MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION

UNIT 6: BINOMIAL THEOREM AND ITS SIMPLE APPLICATIONS

UNIT 7: SEQUENCES AND SERIES

UNIT 8: LIMIT, CONTINUITY AND DIFFERENTIABILITY

UNIT 9: INTEGRAL CALCULUS

UNIT 10: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

UNIT 11: CO-ORDINATE GEOMETRY

UNIT 12: THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY

UNIT 13: VECTOR ALGEBRA

UNIT 14: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

UNIT 15: TRIGONOMETRY

UNIT 16: MATHEMATICAL REASONING

PHYSICS

SECTION A

UNIT 1: PHYSICS AND MEASUREMENT

UNIT 2: KINEMATICS

UNIT 3: LAWS OF MOTION

UNIT 4: WORK, ENERGY AND POWER

UNIT 5: ROTATIONAL MOTION

UNIT 6: GRAVITATION

UNIT 7: PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS

UNIT 8: THERMODYNAMICS

UNIT 9: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

UNIT 10: OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES

UNIT 11: ELECTROSTATICS

UNIT 12: CURRRENT ELECTRICITY

UNIT 13: MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF CURRENT AND MAGNETISM

UNIT 14: ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND ALTERNATING CURRENTS

UNIT 15: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

UNIT 16: OPTICS

UNIT 17: DUAL NATURE OF MATTER ANDRADIATION

UNIT 18: ATOMS AND NUCLEI

UNIT 19: ELECTRONIC DEVICES

UNIT 20: COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

SECTIONB

UNIT 21: EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS

Familiarity with the basic approach and observations of the experiments and activities

1. Vernier callipers-its use to measure internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel.

2. Screw gauge-its use to determine thickness/diameter of thin sheet/wire.

3. Simple Pendulum-dissipation of energy by plotting a graph between square of amplitude time.

4. Metre Scale - mass of a given object by principle of moments.

5. Youngs modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire.

6. Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents.

7. Co-efficient of Viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring terminal velocity of a given spherical body.

8. Plotting a cooling curve for the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time.

9. Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube.

10. Specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii)liquid by method of mixtures.

11. Resistivity of the material of a given wire using metre bridge.

12. Resistance of a given wire using Ohm's law.

13. Potentiometer

(i) Comparison of emf of two primary cells.

(ii) Determination of internal resistance of a cell.

14. Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method.

15. Focal length of :(i) Convex mirror, ii) Concave mirror, and (iii) Convex lens using parallax method.

16. Plot of angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism.

17. Refractive index of a glass slab using a travelling

18. Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias.

19. Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and finding reverse break down voltage.

20. Characteristic curves of a transistor and finding current gain and voltage gain.

21. Identification of Diode, LED, Transistor, IC,Resistor, Capacitor from mixed collection of such items.

22. Using multimeter to:(i) Identify base of a transistor, (ii) Distinguish between npn and pnp type transistor, (iii) See the unidirectional flow of current in case of a diode and an LED.(iv) Check the correctness or otherwise of a given electronic component (diode, transistor or IC)

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

UNIT 1: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS IN CHEMISTRY

UNIT 2: STATES OF MATTER

UNIT 3: ATOMIC STRUCTURE

UNIT 4: CHEMICAL BONDING AND MOLECULAR

UNIT 5: CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS

UNIT 6: SOLUTIONS

UNIT 7: EQUILIBRIUM

UNIT 8: REDOX REACTIONS AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY

UNIT 9: CHEMICAL KINETICS

UNIT-10: SURFACE CHEMISTRY

SECTION B

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

UNIT 11: CLASSIFICATON OF ELEMENTS AND PERIODICITY IN PROPERTIES

UNIT 12: GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES OF ISOLATION OF METALS

UNIT 13: HYDROGEN

UNIT 14: S - BLOCK ELEMENTS (ALKALI AND ALKALINE EARTH METALS)

UNIT 15: P - BLOCK ELEMENTS

UNIT 16: d and f BLOCK ELEMENTS

UNIT 17: CO-ORDINATION COMPOUNDS

UNIT 18: ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

SECTION-C

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

UNIT 19: PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERISAT 2012ION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

UNIT 20: SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

UNIT 21: HYDROCARBONS

UNIT 22: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING

UNIT 23: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING OXYGEN

UNIT 24: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING NITROGEN

UNIT 25: POLYMERS 

UNIT 26: BIOMOLECULES

UNIT 27: CHEMISTRY IN EVERYDAY LIFE

UNIT 28: PRINCIPLES RELATED TO PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY