SYLLABUS FOR WBJEEM – 2014

PHYSICS
Mechanics & General properties of matter
(i)Units and dimensions: Units of measurement, system of units, fundamental and derived units, S I
units, dimensional analysis.
Methods of measurement: Vernier scale, screw gauge, analysis of
errors, significant figures.
(ii)Scalars and vectors: Addition, subtraction, multiplication of vectors. Dot product and cross product
(iii)Kinematics in one, two and three dimensions, projectiles, uniform circular motion, centripetal
force, centrifugal force, relative velocity.
(iv)Dynamics: Newton's laws of motion; inertial frames, uniformly accelerated frame (pseudo-forces),
Principle of conservation of linear momentum, rocket motion, centre of mass, impulsive forces, friction.
(v)Work, Power and Energy, conservative and non-conservative forces,principle of conservation of
energy, collision (elastic and inelastic).
(vi)Rotational motion : Torque, angular momentum and principle of conservation of angular
momentum, moment of inertia, radius of gyration, moment of inertia of objects with simple geometrical
shapes, rotational kinetic energy and rolling on horizontal surface
Gravitation:
Newton’s Law of gravitation, gravitational field and potential, acceleration due to gravity and its
variation, escape velocity, Kepler's laws and planetary motion, motion of satellites ,Geostationary orbit.
Elasticity: Hooke's law, elastic modulii, Poisson's ratio, elastic energy.
Hydrostatics and Fluid Mechanics:
Pressure inside a fluid, Pascal's law, Archimedes' principle,
hydraulic press.
Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise.
Viscosity, streamline and turbulent motion, crit
ical velocity, Reynold's number, Stoke's
law,
Bernoulli's theorem and its application.
Vibrations:
Simple Harmonic Motion(SHM), equation of motion, damped and forced
vibrations, resonance,
superposition of SHM.
Wave motion:
Elastic waves, longitudinal and
transverse waves, progressive waves, superposition of
waves:
interference, stationary waves, beats, vibration of strings, air
columns, velocity of elastic
waves in different
media, Doppler effect.
Thermal Physics:
Scales of temperature, thermal expansion of solids, liquids and

gases,
calorimetry, change of state of matter, latent heat, transition

temperature, Transmission of heat:

conduction, convection, radiation, Black body radiation, absorptive

and emissive powe

rs:
Kirchoff’s law of radiation, Wien's law, Stefan's law, Newton's law
of cooling, Kinetic theory: mean
free path, pressure of an ideal gas, mean and rms velocities of

molecules of a
gas,
kinetic interpretation
of temperature, degrees of freedom, equipar
tition of energy (statement only) application to mono
atomic and diatonic gases.
Thermodynamics:
First law of thermodynamics, equivalence of heat and work,

intensive
and extensive
thermodynamic variables, reversible and irreversible processes,

specific heats of
gases, relation between Cp
and Cv.
Optics:
Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, total

internal reflection, thin

lenses, power of
a lens, combination of
lenses and mirrors, deviation and dispersion by prisms,
Simple
and compound microscopes, astronomical telescope, human eye: it’s

defects and remedies.

Coherent sources, interference of light, Young's double slit

experiment.
Electrostatics:
Coulomb's law
, electric field and potential, flux of electric field, Gauss' law,
electric field and
potential due to an infinite line charge, charged infinite sheet, solid

spheres and
spherical shells.Electric dipole
and field due to an electric dipole.
Capacitance, sp
herical and parallel plate capacitors, energy stored in a

capacitor, series and parallel

combination
of capacitors.
Current Electricity:
Electric current, drift velocity and mobility. Ohm's law, resistivity,

combination
of resistances
in series and
parallel, combination of cells.
Kirchoff’s laws of electric network, Wheatstone bridge, Metre

bridge, potentiometer.
Heating effect of current, thermoelectricity, Seebeck and Peltier

effect.
Chemical effect of current, Faraday's law of electrolysis,
primary and secondary cells.
Electromagnetism:
Magnetic effects of Current, BiotSavart's law
, magnetic field due to
current flowing through i) an infinitely long straight wire, ii)

circular coil iii) solenoid; Ampere's

circuital law, Lorentz force, Flemin
g's left hand rule, force between
two current carrying
conductors, magnetic moment of a current loop, magnetic dipole,

torque experienced by
a current
carrying coil in a uniform magnetic field, galvanometer, current

sensitivity, conversion of
galvanometer
to voltmeter and ammeter.
Magnetic field of earth.tangent galvanometer, magnetic

properties of materials : Diamagnetic,

paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials,
permeability, susceptibility.
Electromagnetic induction : Magnetic flux, Faraday's laws of ele
ctromagnetic induction,
Lenz's law, self and mutual induction, , Fleming’s right hand rule,

Alternating current, peak

and rms value of alternating voltage andcurrent;
generator, D.C. motor and transformer
Qualitative idea of electromagnetic waves and elect
romagnetic spectrum.
Modern Physics:
Bohr's atomic model for hydrogen like atom, hydrogen spectrum, x
-
ray
emission, Moseley's
law, wave particle duality, de Broglie's hypothesis, photoelectric

effect .
Constituents of an atom, isotopes, mass defect, mass
-
energy equivalence, binding
energy.radioactivity
–
α, β, γ
radiation, half life, mean life, fission, fusion.
Electronics :
Energy bands in solids, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, p
-
n junction di
ode,
rectifier, pnp and npn transistors, common emitter characteristics

of a transistor.
Binary numbers, AND, OR, NOT, NAND and NOR gates.
MATHEMATICS
Algebra
A.P., G.P.,
H.P.:
Definitions of A. P. and G.P.; General term; Summation of first n
-
terms; A.M.
and G.M.;
Definitions of H.P. (only 3 terms) and H.M.; Finite arithmetic
-
geometric series.
Logarithms:
Definition; General properties; Change of base.
Complex Numbers
: Definition
and properties of complex numbers; Complex conjugate; Triangle
inequality;
Square root of complex numbers; Cube roots of unity; De Moivre's

theorem (statement
only) and its elementary applications.
Quadratic Equations
: Quadratic equations with real coefficients; Relations between

roots and
coefficients;
Nature of roots; Formation of a quadratic equation, sign and

magnitude of the quadratic

expression ax
2
+bx+c (where a, b, c are rational numbers and a ≠ 0).
Permutation
and combination:
Permutation of n different things taken r at a time (r ≤ n).
Permutation of n
things not all different. Permutation with repetitions (circular

permutation
excluded).
Combinations of n different things taken r at a time (r ≤ n).

Combination
of n things not all
different.
Basic properties.
Problems involving both permutations and combinations.
Principle of mathematical induction:
Statement of the principle, proof by induction for the sum of
squares, sum of cubes of first n natural numbers, di
visibility properties like 2
2n
—
1 is divisible by 3 (n ≥ 1),
7 divides 3
2n+1
+2
n+2
(n ≥ 1)
Binomial theorem (positive integral index):
Statement of the theorem, general term, middle
term, equidistant terms, properties of binomial coefficients.
Infinite series:
Binomial theorem for negative and fractional index. Infinite G.P.

series, Exponential
and Logarithmic series with range of validity (statement only),

simple applications.
Matrices:
Concepts of m x n (m ≤ 3, n ≤ 3) real matrices, operations
of addition, scalar
multiplication
and multiplication of matrices. Transpose of a matrix. Determinant

of a square
matrix. Properties of
determinants (statement only). Minor, cofactor and adjoint of a

matrix.
Nonsingular matrix. Inverse of a
matrix. Findin
g area of a triangle. Solutions of system of linear
equations. (Not more than 3 variables).
Sets, Relations and Mappings:
Idea of sets, subsets, power set, complement, union,
intersection and
difference of sets, Venn diagram, De Morgan's Laws, Inclusion /
Exclusion formula for
two or three finite sets, Cartesian product of sets.
Relation and its properties. Equivalence relation
—
definition and elementary examples, mappings,
range
and domain, injective, surjective and bijective mappings, composition

of
mappings, inverse of a
mapping.
Probability
: Classical definition, addition rule, conditional probability and

Bayes' theorem,
independence, multiplication rule.
Trigonometry
Trigonometric ratios, compound angles, multiple and submultiple

angles, general solution of

trigonometric
equations. Properties of triangles, inverse trigonometric functions.
Coordinate geometry of two dimensions
Basic Ideas:
Distance formula, section fo
rmula, area of a triangle, condition of collinearity of three
points in a
plane.
Polar coordinates, transformation from Cartesian to polar
coordinates and vice versa. Parallel
transformation of
axes, concept of locus, elementary locus problems.
Straight line:
Slope of a line. Equation of lines in different forms, angle between

two lines.
Condition of
perpendicularity and parallelism of two lines. Distance of a point

from a line.
Distance between two parallel
lines. Lines through the point of inte
rsection of two lines.
Circle:
Equation of a circle with a given center and radius. Condition that a

general equation of
second degree
in x, y may represent a circle. Equation of a circle in terms of

endpoints of a
diameter . Parametric equation of
a circl
e. Intersection of a line with a circle. Equation of common
chord of two intersecting circles.
Conics : Definition, Directrix, Focus and Eccentricity, classification

based on eccentricity.
Parabola : Standard equation. Reduction of the form x = ay
2
+by+c or
y = ax
2
+bx+c to the
standard form y
2
=
4ax or x
2
= 4ay respectively. Elementary properties and parametric equation
of a
parabola.
Ellipse and Hyperbola:
Reduction to standard form of general equation of second degree

when
xy term is
absent. Conjugate hyperbola. Simple properties. Parametric

equations. Location of a
point with respect to a
conic.
Calculus
Differential calculus:
Functions, composition of two functions and inverse of a function,

limit,
continuity,
derivative, chain rul
e, derivative of implicit functions and functions defined
parametrically.
Rolle's Theorem and Lagrange's Mean Value theorem (statement

only). Their geometric

interpretation and
elementary application. L'Hospital's rule (statement only) and

applications.
S
econd order derivative.
Integral calculus:
Integration as a reverse process of differentiation, indefinite

integral of standard
functions. Integration by parts. Integration by substitution and

partial fraction.
Definite integral as a limit of a sum with
equal subdivisions. Fundamental theorem of integral calculus
and its applications. Properties of definite integrals.
Differential Equations:
Formulation and solution of differential equations of the forms.
1
)
dy / dx = f(x).g(y)
2
)
dy /. dx = f(y/x)
3
)
dy / dx =
(ax+by) / (
cx+dy)
4
)
dy / dx = (a,x+b,y+c,) / (a,x+b,y+c, ), (
a
,
/a
2
=
b,/b,)
5
)
dy / dx + p(x)y = Q(x)
6
)
d2y / dx
2
+ p, dy/dx
+
p
2
y
=
0 with p
1
and p, constants.
7
)
d2y/dx2 = f(x)
Application of Calculus:
Tangents and normals, conditions of tangency. Determination
of monotonicity, maxima and minima.
Differential coefficient as a measure of rate.
Motion in a straight line with constant acceleration.
Geometric interpretation of definite integral as area, calculation

of area bounded by elementary curves

and Straight l
ines. Area of the region included between two elementary curves.
CHEMISTRY
Atoms, Molecules and Chemical
Arithmetic:
Dalton’s atomic theory; Gay Lussac’s law of gaseous volume;

Avogadro’s Hypothesis and its

applications.
Atomic mass; Molecular mass; Equivalent weight; Valency; Gram

atomic weight; Gram

molecular weight; Gram equivalent weight and mole concept;

Chemical formulae; Balanced

chemical equations; Calculations
(based on mole concept) involving common oxidation
-
red
uction,
neutralization, and displacement reactions; Concentration in terms

of mole fraction, molarity, molality

and normality.
Percentage composition, empirical formula and molecular formula;

Numerical problems.
Atomic Structure
Concept of Nuclear Atom
—
electron, proton and neutron (charge and mass), atomic number;
Rutherford's
model and its limitations; Extra nuclear structure; Line spectra of

hydrogen atom.
Quantization of energy (Planck's equation E = hν); Bohr's model of
hydr
ogen atom and its
limitations,
Sommerfelds modifications (elementary idea); The four quantum

numbers, ground state

electronic configurations
of many electron atoms and mono
-
atomic ions; The Aufbau Principle; Pauli's
Exclusion Principle and Hund's
Rule.
Uncertainty principle; The concept of atomic orbitals, shapes of s,
p
and
d
orbitals (pictorial approach)
Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry
Radioactivity
—
α
-
,β
-
,γ
-
rays and their properties; Artificial transmutation; Rate of

radioactive decay,
decay
constant, half
-
life and average life period of radio
-
elements; Units of radioactivity, Numerical
problems.
Stability of the atomic nucleus
—
effect of neutron
—
proton (n/p) ratio on the modes of decay, group
displacement law, radioisotopes and their uses (C
, P, Co and I as examples) isobars and isotones
(definition and examples), elementary idea of nuclear fission and

fusion reactions.
The Periodic Table and Chemical
Families
Modern periodic law (based on atomic number); Modern periodic

table based on electronic

configurations, groups (Gr. 1
-
18) and periods. Types of elements
-
representative (s
-
block and p
-
block), transition (d
-
block)
elements and inner transition (f
-
block / lan
thanides and actinides)
and their general characteristics. Periodic
trends in physical and chemical properties
—
atomic
radii, valency, ionization energy, electron affinity,
electronegativity, metallic character, acidic
and basic characters of oxides and hyd
rides of the representative
elements (up to Z = 36). Position
of hydrogen and the noble gases in the periodic table; Diagonal

relationships.
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Valence electrons, the Octet rule, electrovalent, covalent and

coordinat
e covalent bonds with examples;
Properties of electrovalent and covalent compounds. Limitations of

Octet rule (examples); Fajan's Rule.

Directionality of covalent bonds, shapes of poly
-
atomic molecules (examples); Concept of
hybridization of
atomic orbital
s (qualitative pictorial approach) : sp, sp
2
, sp
3
and dsp
2
.
Molecular orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic

species
-
bond order and magnetic
properties.
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) concept (elementary

idea)
—
shapes of molecules.
Concept of
resonance (elementary idea), resonance structures (examples).

Elementary idea about

electro negativity, bond
polarity and dipole moment, inter
-
and in
tra
-
molecular hydrogen bonding
and its effects on physical properties
(mp, bp and solubility); Hydrogen bridge bonds in diborane.
Double salts and complex salts, co
-
ordination compounds (examples only), co
-
ordination
number (examples
of co
-
ordination
number 4 and 6 only).
Gaseous state
Measurable properties of gases. Boyle's Law and Charles Law,

absolute scale of temperature, kinetic

theory of
gases, ideal gas equation
—
average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their
relationship wi
th
temperature.
Dalton's Law of partial pressure, Graham's Law of gaseous

diffusion. Deviations from ideal behavior.

Liquefaction of gases, real gases, van der Waal's equation;

Numerical problems.
Chemical Energetics and Chemical Dynamics
Chemical
Energetics
—
Conservation of energy principle, energy changes in physical and
chemical
transformations. First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy,

work and heat, pressure

-
volume work; Enthalpy. Internal energy change (ΔE) and Enthalpy

change (ΔH) in a c
hemical reaction.
Hess's Law and its applications
(Numerical problems). Heat of reaction, fusion and vapourization;
Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy;
Free energy; Criterion of spontaneity.
Chemical Equilibria
—
The Law of mass action, dynamic nature of chemical equilibria.

Equilibrium
constants,
Le Chatelier's Principle. Equilibrium constants of gaseous reactions

(K
p
and K
c
)
and
relation between them
(examples). Significance of ΔG and ΔG°.
Chemical Dynamics
—
Fac
tors affecting the rate of chemical reactions (concentration,

pressure,
temperature, catalyst). Arrhenius equation and concept of

activation energy.
Order and molecularity (determination excluded); First order

reactions, rate constant, half

-
life
(numerical
problems), examples of first order and second order reactions.
Physical Chemistry of Solutions
Colloidal Solutions
—
differences from true solutions; Hydrophobic and hydrophilic

colloids (examples
and uses); Coagulation and peptization of colloids;
Dialysis and its applications; Brownian motion;
Tyndall effect and its applications; Elementary idea of emulsion,
surfactant and micelle.
Electrolytic Solutions
—
Specific conductance, equivalent conductance, ionic conductance,

Kohlrausch's
law,
Faraday's
laws of electrolysis, applications. Numerical problems.
Non
-
electrolytic Solutions
—
Types of solution, vapour pressure of solutions. Raoult's Law;

Colligative
properties
—
lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, depression

of freezing poi
nt,
osmotic pressure and
their relationships with molecular mass (without derivations);

Numerical
problems.
Ionic and Redox Equilibria
Ionic equilibria
—
ionization of weak electrolytes, Ostwald's dilution law. Ionization

constants of weak
acids
and base
s, ionic product of water, the pH
-
scale, pH of aqueous solutions of acids and bases; Buffer
solutions,
buffer action and Henderson equation.
Acid
-
base titrations, acid
-
base indicators (structures not required).
Solubility and Solubility Products
Commo
n ion effect (no numerical problems).
Redox Equilibria
—
Oxidation
-
Reduction reactions as electron transfer processes, oxidation

numbers,
balancing
of redox reactions by oxidation number and ion
-
electron methods.
Standard electrode potentials (E°), Electrochemical series,

feasibility of a redox reaction.

Significance of Gibb's equation:
Δ
G° =
-
nF
Δ
E° (without derivation), no numerical
problems.
Redox titrations with (examples); Nernst equations (Numerical

problems)
.
Chemistry of Non
-
metallic Elements and their Compounds
Carbon
—
occurrence, isotopes, allotropes (graphite, diamond, fullerene); CO

and CO, production,

properties
and uses.
Nitrogen and Phosphorus
—
occurrence, isotopes, allotopes, isolation from
natural sources and
purification, reactivity of the free elements. Preparation,

properties, reactions of NH
3
, PH
3
, NO, NO
2
,
HNO
2
, HNO
3
,P
4
O
10
,
H
3
PO
3
and H
3
PO
4
.
Oxygen and Sulphur
—
Occurrence, isotopes, allotropic forms, isolation from natural

sources and
purification, properties and reactions of the free elements. Water,

unusual properties of water, heavy

water (production and
uses). Hydrogen peroxide and ozone (production, purification,
properties and
uses).
Halogen
Halogens
-
comparative study, occurrence, physical states and chemical

reactivities of the
free elements,
peculiarities of fluorine and iodine; Hydracids of halogens

(preparation,
properties, reactions and uses), inter
halogen compounds (examples); Oxyacids
of chlorine.
Chemistry of Metals
General principles of metallurgy
-
occurrence, concentration of ores, production and
purification of metals,
mineral wealth of India.
Typical metals (Na, Ca, Al, Fe, Cu and Zn)
-
occurrence, extraction, purification (where
applicable), properties
and reactions with air, water, acids and non
-
metals.
Manufacture of steels and alloy steel (Bessemer, Open
-
Hearth and L.D. process).
Principles
of chemistry involved in electroplating, anodizing and galvanizing.
Chemistry in Industry
Large scale production (including physicochemical principles where

applicable omitting
technical details and
uses of individual items).
Heavy Chemicals
-
Sulphuric
acid (contact process), Ammonia (Haber's process), Nitric acid
(Ostwald's process),
sodium bi
-
carbonate and sodium carbonate (Solvey process).
Polymers, Polythene, Nylon
-
66, rubber from natural source, vulcanization.
Electrochemicals
-
sodium hydroxide,
chlorine, bleaching powder as
byproducts, F
uel Gases
-
LPG, CNG.
Silicon carbide and silicones.
Environmental Chemistry
Common modes of pollution of air, water and soil. Ozone layer, ozone

hole
-
important
chemical reactions.
Green House effect; Smog; Pollution of water by domestic and

industrial
effluents; Pollutants
-
pesticides, fertilizers
and plastics.
Chemistry of Carbon Compounds
Hybridization of carbon
-
σ
-
and π
-
bonds.
Isomerism
-
constitutional and stereoisomerism; Ge
ometrical and optical isomerism of
compounds containing
upto two asymmetric carbon atoms. IUPAC nomenclature of simple
organic compounds
-
hydrocarbons, mono
and bifunctional molecules only (alicyclic and
heterocyclic compounds excluded). Conformations of
ethane
and n
-
butane (Newman projection
only).
Electronic Effects
—
inductive, resonance and hyperconjugation. Stability of

carbocation,
carbanion and free
radicals; Rearrangement of carbocation; Electrophiles and

nucleophiles,
tautomerism in
-
dicarbonyl compounds,
acidity and basicity of simple organic compounds.
Aliphatic Compounds
Alkanes
--
Preparation from alkyl halides and carboxylic acids; Reactions
—
halogenation and
combustion.
Alkenes and Alkynes
—
Preparation from alcohols;
Markownikoff's and anti
-
Markownikoff's
additions; Hydroboration; Oxymercuration
—
demercuration, reduction
of alkenes and alkynes
(H
2
/Lindler catalyst and Na in liquid NH
3
), metal acetylides.
Alkyl halides
--
Preparation from alcohols; Formation of Grignard reagents and

their synthetic
applications for
the preparation of alkanes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and

acids; S
N
1 and S
N
2
reactions (preliminary concept).
Alcohols
—
Preparation from ca
rbonyl compounds and esters. Reaction
—
dehydration, oxidation,
esterification,
reaction with sodium, ZnCl
2
/ HCl, phosphorous halides.
Ethers
—
Preparation by Williamson's synthesis; Cleavage with HCl and HI.
Aldehydes and Ketones
—
Preparation from esters
, acid chlorides, gem
-
dihalides, Ca
-
salt of
carboxylic acids.
Reaction
—
Nucleophilic addition with HCN, hydrazine, hydroxyl amines, semi
carbazides,
alcohols; Aldol condensation, Clemmensen and Wolff
-
Kishner reduction, haloform,
Cannizzaro and Wittig
reac
tions.
Carboxylic Acids
—
Hydrolysis of esters (mechanism excluded) and cyanides; Hunsdicker

and HVZ
reactions.
Aliphatic Amines
—
Preparation from nitro, cyano and amido compounds. Distinction of 1
0
, 2°
and 3° amines
(Hinsberg method); Reaction with HNO
2
; Carbyl amine reaction.
Aromatic Compounds
Benzene
—
Kekule structure, aromaticity and Huckel rule. Electrophilic

substitution
—
halogenation,
sulfonation, nitration, Friedel Crafts reaction, ozonolysis.

Directive influence of substituents in

monosubst
ituted benzenes.
Amines
—
Preparation from reduction of nitro compounds; Formation of
diazonium salts and
their stability;
Replacement of diazonium group with H, OH, X (halogen), CN and NO
2
; diazocoupling
and reduction.
Haloarenes
—
Nucleophilic substituti
on, cine substitution (excluding mechanism).
Phenols
—
halogenation, sulfonation, nitration, Reimer
-
Tiemann and Kolbe reactions.
Aromatic Aldehydes
—
Preparation by Gattermann, Gattermann
—
Koch, Rosenmund and Stephen's
method. Reactions
—
Perkin, Benzoin
and Cannizzaro.
Application Oriented Chemistry
Main ingredients, their chemical natures (structures excluded) and

their side effects, if any,

of common
antiseptics, analgesics, antacids, vitamin
-
C.
Introduction to Bio
-
Molecules
Carbohydrates
—
Pentoses
and hexoses. Distinctive chemical reactions of glucose.
Aminoacids
—
glycine, alanine, aspartic acid, cysteine (structures). Zwitterion

structures of amino
acids, peptide bond.
ADP and ATP
—
structures and role in bioenergetics; Nucleic acids
—
DNA and RN
A skeleton
structures. Names of essential elements in biological system.
Principles of Qualitative Analysis
Detection of water soluble non
-
interfering Acid and Basic Radicals by dry and wet tests from

among:
Acid Radicals : Cl
-
,S
2
-
, SO
4
2
-
, NO
-
3
, CO
3
2
-
Basic Radicals: Cu
2+
, Al
3+
, Fe
3+
, Fe
2+
, Zn
2+
, Ca
2+
, Mg
2+
, Na
+
, NH
4
+
Detection of special elements (N, Cl,
Br
,
I and S) in organic compounds by chemical tests.
Identification of
functional groups in: phenols, aromatic amines, aldehydes, ketones

and carboxyl
ic
acids.